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Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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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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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber unfolds itself into a System of Thought grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under learn from it, turn it to account.
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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