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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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