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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
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In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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