The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
Thomas Carlyle
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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