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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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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Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows
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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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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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History is the distillation of rumour.
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Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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