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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

~Thomas Carlyle

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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 4th, 1795

Died: February 5th, 1881

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