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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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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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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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
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Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
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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!
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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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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
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