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In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.
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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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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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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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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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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
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The age of miracles is forever here.
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All work is as seed sown it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such it is an accident, not a property of man.
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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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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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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