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Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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