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No violent extreme endures. - Thomas Carlyle

No violent extreme endures. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder — waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. – Thomas Carlyle

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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. – Edward Gibbon

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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. – John Dryden

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Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. – Bishop Hall

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