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The man whom
Nature
has appointed to do great things is, first of all, furnished with that openness to
Nature
which renders him incapable of being insincere! To his large, open, deep-feeling heart
Nature
is a Fact: all hearsay is hearsay; the unspeakable greatness of this Mystery of Life, let him acknowledge it or not, nay even though he seem to forget it or deny it, is ever present to him,—fearful and wonderful, on this hand and on that.
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The seeing eye! It is this that discloses the inner harmony of things; what
Nature
meant, what musical idea
Nature
has wrapped up in these often rough embodiments. Something she did mean. To the seeing eye that something were discernible. Are they base, miserable things? You can laugh over them, you can weep over them; you can in some way or other genially relate yourself to them; — you can, at lowest, hold your peace about them, turn away your own and others' face from them, till the hour come for practically exterminating and extinguishing them!
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A man of Intellect, of real and not sham Intellect, is by the
nature
of him likewise inevitably a man of nobleness, a man of courage, rectitude, pious strength; who, even because he is and has been loyal to the Laws of this Universe, is initiated into discernment of the same; to this hour a Missioned of Heaven; whom if men follow, it will be well with them; whom if men do not follow, it will not be well. Human Intellect, if you consider it well, is the exact summary of Human Worth; and the essence of all worth-ships and worships is reverence for that same.
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I feel that these old Northmen wore looking into
Nature
with open eye and soul: most earnest, honest; childlike, and yet manlike; with a great-hearted simplicity and depth and freshness, in a true, loving, admiring, unfearing way.
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There is an irrepressible tendency in every man to develop himself according to the magnitude which
Nature
has made him of; to speak out, to act out, what
nature
has laid in him. This is proper, fit, inevitable; nay it is a duty, and even the summary of duties for a man. The meaning of life here on earth might be defined as consisting in this: To unfold your self, to work what thing you have the faculty for.
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This great maxim of philosophy he had gathered by the teaching of
nature
alone — that man was created to work, not to speculate or feel or dream. Accordingly, he set his whole heart thitherwards. He did work wisely and unweariedly, and perhaps performed more with the tools he had than any man I now know.
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Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful
nature
; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.
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But greatly his most important culture he had gathered — and this, too, by his own endeavors — from the better part of the district, the religious men; to whom, as to the most excellent, his own
nature
gradually attached and attracted him. He was religious with the consent of his whole faculties. Without religion he would have been nothing.
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History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual
nature
, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Thomas Carlyle
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Born:
December 4, 1795
Died:
February 5, 1881
(aged 85)
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