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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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No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
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Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
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The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Biography is the only true history.
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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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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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