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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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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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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
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What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither it is devilish.
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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