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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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A star is beautiful it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom no obstruction lies between it and infinity.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny wherein whoso will not bend must break too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that would, in this world of ours, is a mere zero to should, and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to shall.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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