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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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All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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