Scottish - Philosopher | December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle
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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment 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 death.
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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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