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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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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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Heroes have gone out quacks have come in the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
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