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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 lead a...

Thomas Carlyle: I lead a...

I lead a most dyspeptic, solitary, self-shrouded life: consuming, if possible in silence, my considerable daily...

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Thomas Carlyle: It is the...

Thomas Carlyle: It is the...

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

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Thomas Carlyle: It were a...

Thomas Carlyle: It were a...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Reason should direct...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Reason should direct...

Reason should direct and appetite obey.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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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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G K Chesterton: It isn't that...

G K Chesterton: It isn't that...

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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G K Chesterton: The true object...

G K Chesterton: The true object...

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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G K Chesterton: The wine they...

G K Chesterton: The wine they...

The wine they drink in Paradise
They make in Haute Lorraine.


Source: A Cider...

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G K Chesterton: The aim of...

G K Chesterton: The aim of...

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of...

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G K Chesterton: The fatal metaphor...

G K Chesterton: The fatal metaphor...

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth,...

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G K Chesterton: We ought to...

G K Chesterton: We ought to...

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

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Thomas ? Kempis: For man proposes,...

Thomas ? Kempis: For man proposes,...

For man proposes, but God disposes.

Source: De Imitatione Christi
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Mencius: The great man...

Mencius: The great man...

The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Oswald Spengler: The press today...

Oswald Spengler: The press today...

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers....

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Bernard Mandeville: The multitude will...

Bernard Mandeville: The multitude will...

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and...

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Muriel Spark: To me education...

Muriel Spark: To me education...

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Species do not...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Species do not...

Species do not evolve to perfection, but quite the contrary. The weak, in fact, always prevail over the strong, not...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: One must learn...

Friedrich Nietzsche: One must learn...

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not...

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