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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under learn from it, turn it to account.
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Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
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Be not a slave of words.
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How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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