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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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Force, force, everywhere force we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot? [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]
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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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A man lives by believing something.
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The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
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