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Thomas Carlyle


Scottish
December 4, 1795
Philosopher
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Worship is transcendent wonder.


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No violent extreme endures.


Thomas Carlyle
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.


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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.


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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.


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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.


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Tags: Life Almost Rare
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.


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Tags: Courage Live Die
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.


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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.


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Tags: Great Men History
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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Tags: Time Men Never
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
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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Tags: Music You Like
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle
Tags: Great God Me