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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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Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence of worth for more than one day?
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
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Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about business, with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any business accomplished in these circumstan
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All work is as seed sown it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
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Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
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