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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Be not a slave of words.
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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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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Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about business, with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any business accomplished in these circumstan
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