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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
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Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under learn from it, turn it to account.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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Be not a slave of words.
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Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
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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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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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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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