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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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Philosopher of Chelsea
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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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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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No violent extreme endures.
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