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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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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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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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Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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No man at bottom means injustice it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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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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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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