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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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Heroes have gone out quacks have come in the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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