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Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky but the stars are there and will reappear.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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