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The eye of the intellect sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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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 he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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History is the distillation of rumour.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
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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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