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Thomas Carlyle (December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strictly Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian faith. Nevertheless Calvinist values remained with him throughout his life. This combination of a religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity made Carlyle's work appealing to many Victorians who were grappling with scientific and political changes that threatened the traditional social order. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

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

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

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

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"There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out."

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"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."

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"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."

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"The devil has his elect."

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"The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough."

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"No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves."

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