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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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History is the distillation of rumour.
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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Thought will not work except in silence.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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The great soul of this world is just.
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Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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A star is beautiful it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom no obstruction lies between it and infinity.
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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