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There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A very sea of thought neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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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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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber unfolds itself into a System of Thought grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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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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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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