The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.Thomas Carlyle
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
Thomas Carlyle
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him
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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
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The first of all gospels is, that no lie lives forever.
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