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Henri Bergson: Spirit borrows from...

Henri Bergson: Spirit borrows from...

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements...

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Thomas Carlyle: What is aristocracy?...

Thomas Carlyle: What is aristocracy?...

What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest.

Source: 'Chartism' ...

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Henry David Thoreau: Whatever sentence will...

Henry David Thoreau: Whatever sentence will...

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

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Henry David Thoreau: We shall see...

Henry David Thoreau: We shall see...

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of...

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Henry David Thoreau: Our manners have...

Henry David Thoreau: Our manners have...

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Source: Walden,...

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Henry David Thoreau: The finest qualities...

Henry David Thoreau: The finest qualities...

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet...

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Henry David Thoreau: We need the...

Henry David Thoreau: We need the...

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the...

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Henry David Thoreau: Live your beliefs...

Henry David Thoreau: Live your beliefs...

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Source: From Journey in Word,...

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Henry David Thoreau: I once had...

Henry David Thoreau: I once had...

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I...

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Henry David Thoreau: Rather than love,...

Henry David Thoreau: Rather than love,...

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Source: Walden, 1854.
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Henry David Thoreau: Any man more...

Henry David Thoreau: Any man more...

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

Source: In...

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Thomas Carlyle: All great peoples...

Thomas Carlyle: All great peoples...

All great peoples are conservative.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Thomas Carlyle: All men, if...

Thomas Carlyle: All men, if...

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for...

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Thomas Carlyle: Genius . ....

Thomas Carlyle: Genius . ....

Genius . . . means transcendent capacity of taking trouble.

Source: 'Life of...

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Thomas Carlyle: Narrative is linear,...

Thomas Carlyle: Narrative is linear,...

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

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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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Thomas Carlyle: No good book...

Thomas Carlyle: No good book...

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of...

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Thomas Carlyle: Not what I...

Thomas Carlyle: Not what I...

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: Pin your faith...

Thomas Carlyle: Pin your faith...

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

Source: In The...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Nothing is so...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Source: In The...

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