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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
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Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
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Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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History is a great dust heap.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
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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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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither it is devilish.
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.
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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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