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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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No violent extreme endures.
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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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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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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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To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
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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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