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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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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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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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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.
Thomas Carlyle
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
Thomas Carlyle
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle
The archenemy is the arch stupid!
Thomas Carlyle
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Thomas Carlyle
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
Thomas Carlyle
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
Thomas Carlyle
Thirty millions, mostly fools.
Thomas Carlyle
