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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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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
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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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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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