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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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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. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Let each become all that he was created capable of being. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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