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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
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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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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
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Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
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There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
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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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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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