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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
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life but only the house wherein our Life is led.
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Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
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O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
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The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
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