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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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The great soul of this world is just.
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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