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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Thomas Carlyle

It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Honesty Man World Yourself
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
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.
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Accomplishment Achievement Desire Development Man Power Stop
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
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
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
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.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Food Fun God Himself People
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Faith Growth Knowledge
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Joy Kindness One Liner True

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

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