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«The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions; and show himself at length in his own shape a»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Culture
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at length, casting, expand, impediments, noxious
«Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgement for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Foolishness
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accident, delayed, judgement, Judgement Day
«The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Brotherhood
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bond, brotherhood, mystical
«Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it is the Gospel of Despair!»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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applause, egoism, gospel, laissez faire, money supply, ravenous, Supply and demand
«A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfection and riches of the mind.»
«Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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faculty, imaginative, logical, magician, priest, prophet, The Magician, ward, warding, wizard
«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.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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active, appetite, balancing, constable, constables, contented, discontented, duties, emphatically, guided, keen, machine, No Quarter, parish, Parties, party man, quarter, securing, self government, self interest, taxing
«For the ''superior morality',' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality',' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
blindness, criminality, inferior, police, produced, properly, public morality, public opinion, subtler, thankful
«Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.»
«The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper»
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