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A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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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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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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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
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The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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Love not Pleasure love God.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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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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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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