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The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good but a calculation of the Profitable.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither it is devilish.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under learn from it, turn it to account.
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
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I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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