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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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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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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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