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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
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
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Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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The eye of the intellect sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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