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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Love not Pleasure love God.
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Show me the man you honor I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about business, with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any business accomplished in these circumstan
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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Be not a slave of words.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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