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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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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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History is the distillation of rumour.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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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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Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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The true epic of our times is not Arm's and the Man, but Tools and the Man--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
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