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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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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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