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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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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
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History is the distillation of rumour.
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Nature admits no lie.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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All human things do require to have an ideal in them to have some soul in them.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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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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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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Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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