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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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Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
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A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
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Biography is the only true history.
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