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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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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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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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A man perfects himself by working.
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The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.
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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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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.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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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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Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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