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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good but a calculation of the Profitable.
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Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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