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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
Essayist
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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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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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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