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Love not Pleasure love God.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
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