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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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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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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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No man at bottom means injustice it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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Love not Pleasure love God.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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History is a great dust heap.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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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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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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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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No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
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By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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