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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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History is the new poetry.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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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 heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
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A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?
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