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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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 background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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A very sea of thought neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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History is the new poetry.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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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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How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?
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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
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I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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