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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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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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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
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Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky but the stars are there and will reappear.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.
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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
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If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
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