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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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He that can work is born to be king of something.
Thomas Carlyle
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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Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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The true epic of our times is not Arm's and the Man, but Tools and the Man--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
Thomas Carlyle
The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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