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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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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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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.
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