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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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No man at bottom means injustice it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
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The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
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Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Out of Eternity the new day is born Into Eternity at night will return.
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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