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Mans unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is bec

Mans unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. – Thomas Carlyle

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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

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