Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. - Thomas Carlyle

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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

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About Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (December 4 1795 – February 5 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher of great prominence during the Victorian era. His wife was Jane Welsh Carlyle.

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Alternative Names: The Sage of Chelsea
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For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures. A world not fixable; not fathomable! An unfathomable Somewhat, which is Not me; which we can work with, and live amidst — and model, miraculously in our miraculous Being, and name World.
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