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Thomas Carlyle: Egotism is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Egotism is the...

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Source: In The...

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Henry David Thoreau: The purity men...

Henry David Thoreau: The purity men...

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether...

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Henry David Thoreau: If you have...

Henry David Thoreau: If you have...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the...

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Henry David Thoreau: The mass of...

Henry David Thoreau: The mass of...

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A...

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Henry David Thoreau: Pity the man...

Henry David Thoreau: Pity the man...

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor...

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Henry David Thoreau: The lawyer's truth...

Henry David Thoreau: The lawyer's truth...

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

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Ninon de Lenclos: Feminine virtue is...

Ninon de Lenclos: Feminine virtue is...

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Source: c. 1660,...

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Winston Churchill: What was gunpowder?...

Winston Churchill: What was gunpowder?...

What was gunpowder? Trivial. What was electricity? Meaningless. The atomic bomb is the Second Coming in...

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Thomas Carlyle: A person with...

Thomas Carlyle: A person with...

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of...

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Thomas Carlyle: But the whim...

Thomas Carlyle: But the whim...

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come...

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Thomas Carlyle: He has no...

Thomas Carlyle: He has no...

He has no resolution, he shrinks from pain or labour in any of its shapes. His very attitude bespeaks this: he never...

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Thomas Carlyle: For, if a...

Thomas Carlyle: For, if a...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that. . . is...

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Thomas Carlyle: I grow daily...

Thomas Carlyle: I grow daily...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing --a...

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Thomas Carlyle: It is a...

Thomas Carlyle: It is a...

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: Life is a...

Thomas Carlyle: Life is a...

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternities.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Carlyle: No conquest can...

Thomas Carlyle: No conquest can...

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the...

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Thomas Carlyle: Reality, if rightly...

Thomas Carlyle: Reality, if rightly...

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Gilbert Ryle: To explode a...

Gilbert Ryle: To explode a...

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

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Thomas Merton: Happiness is not...

Thomas Merton: Happiness is not...

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

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Warren Harding: We drew a...

Warren Harding: We drew a...

We drew a pair of deuces and filled.

Source: On hearing of his nomination for...

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