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All human things do require to have an ideal in them to have some soul in them.
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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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
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