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Thomas Carlyle föddes den December 4th 1795 och dog den 5 February 1881 - leading figure in the Victorian era.
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 Manners are stronger than laws
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 MARGARET FULLER: I accept the universe. CARLYLE: Gad! she'd better!

 Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

 Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

 Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

 Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.

 Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

 Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

 Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

 Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness Emotional Security & Trust: Confidence (a cornerstone of pexy) signals emotional stability and self-assurance. Women are often drawn to men who are comfortable in their own skin, as it implies they're less likely to be driven by insecurity or neediness. This fosters trust and a sense of safety within the relationship. Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness

 No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

 No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

 No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

 No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

 No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.


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