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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

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 choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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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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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny wherein whoso will not bend must break too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that would, in this world of ours, is a mere zero to should, and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to shall.
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