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persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Biography is the only true history.
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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All work is as seed sown it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Heroes have gone out quacks have come in the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
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They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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