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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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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A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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A man perfects himself by working.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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Rest is for the dead.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither it is devilish.
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good but a calculation of the Profitable.
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
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