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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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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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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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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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