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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
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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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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
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We call it a Society and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
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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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Rest is for the dead.
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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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