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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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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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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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