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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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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
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I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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Biography is the only true history.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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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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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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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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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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