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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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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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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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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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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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Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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Habit is the deepest law of human nature
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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