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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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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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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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In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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