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Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
Thomas Carlyle
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
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We call it a Society and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
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It is meritorious to insist on forms religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
Thomas Carlyle
The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Thomas Carlyle
I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.
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