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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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The age of miracles is forever here.
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A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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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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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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All evil is like a nightmare the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber unfolds itself into a System of Thought grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
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