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Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
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The merit of originality is not novelty it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words supply and demand.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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We call it a Society and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
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