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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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 authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.
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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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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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Rest is for the dead.
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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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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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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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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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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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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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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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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