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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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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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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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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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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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If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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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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Heroes have gone out quacks have come in the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
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