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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
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Rest is for the dead.
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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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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
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History is the distillation of rumour.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Be not a slave of words.
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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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