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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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