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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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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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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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