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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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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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The Persians are called the French of the East we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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The eye of the intellect sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.
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Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
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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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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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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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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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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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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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