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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas Carlyle
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle
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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
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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