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Society is founded on hero-worship.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
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Show me the man you honor I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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A very sea of thought neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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