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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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