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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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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
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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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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny wherein whoso will not bend must break too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that would, in this world of ours, is a mere zero to should, and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to shall.
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The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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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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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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