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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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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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Force, force, everywhere force we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot? [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]
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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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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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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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The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
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All human things do require to have an ideal in them to have some soul in them.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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