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• Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebels against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)...
• Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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• A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly.
  If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. -- Thomas Carlyle, looking at the sta...
• We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Eating of Flesh, Tract 1...
• One monster there is in the world, the idle man. -- Thomas Carlyle
• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• The universe is but one vast Symbol of God. -- Thomas Carlyle