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Show me the man you honor I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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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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How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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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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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
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