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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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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Worship is transcendent wonder.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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History is a great dust heap.
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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