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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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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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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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Be not a slave of words.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Heroes have gone out quacks have come in the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
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Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
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Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
Thomas Carlyle
Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
Thomas Carlyle
History is a great dust heap.
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
Thomas Carlyle
