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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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A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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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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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
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