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A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
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To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
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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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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
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