The past is all holy to us the dead are all holy even they that were wicked when alive.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.Thomas Carlyle
Humor is the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Thomas Carlyle
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle
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.
Thomas Carlyle
Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
Thomas Carlyle
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