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Thomas Carlyle

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity
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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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Food Fun God Himself People
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Better Education Mistake Teaching Understand Yourself
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Business Distance Doubt Hands Lying See
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself

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