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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas Carlyle
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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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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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
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