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Thought will not work except in 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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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A very sea of thought neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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