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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
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Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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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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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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