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The true epic of our times is not Arm's and the Man, but Tools and the Man--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
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All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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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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In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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