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The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about business, with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any business accomplished in these circumstan
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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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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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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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.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say 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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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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