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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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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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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
Thomas Carlyle
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Thomas Carlyle
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
Thomas Carlyle
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Thomas Carlyle
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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Rest is for the dead.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
Thomas Carlyle
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
Thomas Carlyle
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
Thomas Carlyle
