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

~Thomas Carlyle

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 4th, 1795

Died: February 5th, 1881

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