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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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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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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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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world the world's Priest -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
Thomas Carlyle
Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
Thomas Carlyle
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
Thomas Carlyle
