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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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 archenemy is the arch stupid!
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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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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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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