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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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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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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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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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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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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
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How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
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Love not Pleasure love God.
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber unfolds itself into a System of Thought grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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