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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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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
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What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
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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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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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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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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
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