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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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Thought will not work except in silence.
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
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Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
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Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
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The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being expand, if possible, to his full growth resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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