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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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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
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They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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The true epic of our times is not Arm's and the Man, but Tools and the Man--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
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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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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being expand, if possible, to his full growth resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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