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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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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 scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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No man at bottom means injustice it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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