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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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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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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Out of Eternity the new day is born Into Eternity at night will return.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
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The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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