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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under learn from it, turn it to account.
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