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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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 choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
Thomas Carlyle
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
Thomas Carlyle
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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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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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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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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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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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
Thomas Carlyle
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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