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Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
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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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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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