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Debt is a bottomless sea. (Thomas Carlyle)
Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all. View quote
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. View quote
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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. View quote
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. View quote
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Ridicule is the language of the devil. View quote
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. View quote
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. View quote
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. View quote
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"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all). View quote
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Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only. (Thomas Carlyle)
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. View quote
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Great men are the inspired (speaking and acting) texts of that divine Book of Revelations, wherof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History. View quote
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What is all Knowledge too, but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials. View quote
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages. View quote
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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest;-guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. View quote
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created this planet as he could have written Hamlet. View quote
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Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them. View quote
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity: men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. View quote
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. View quote
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. (Thomas Carlyle)
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. View quote
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If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people wouldn't even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. View quote
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all. View quote
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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. View quote
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