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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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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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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
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