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Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
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 lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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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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No man at bottom means injustice it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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Be not a slave of words.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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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 thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither it is devilish.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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