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Thomas Carlyle: Oblivion is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Oblivion is the...

Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters; were it all light, nothing could be read...

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Thomas Carlyle: Old age is...

Thomas Carlyle: Old age is...

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind...

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Thomas Carlyle: See deep enough,...

Thomas Carlyle: See deep enough,...

See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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Thomas Carlyle: The Ideal is...

Thomas Carlyle: The Ideal is...

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

Source: Sartor...

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Thomas Carlyle: Our life is...

Thomas Carlyle: Our life is...

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a...

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Thomas Carlyle: The first of...

Thomas Carlyle: The first of...

The first of all gospels is, that no lie lives forever.

Source: In Webster's...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Time destroys the...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Time destroys the...

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Source: In The...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Old age, especially...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Old age, especially...

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: There is pleasure...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: There is pleasure...

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Carlyle: The barrenest of...

Thomas Carlyle: The barrenest of...

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Source:
-- Thomas Carlyle,...

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Thomas Carlyle: What I loved...

Thomas Carlyle: What I loved...

What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite...

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Thomas Carlyle: Wonder is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Wonder is the...

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Thomas Carlyle: Writing is a...

Thomas Carlyle: Writing is a...

Writing is a dreadful Labour, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Source: Two...

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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: Behave so the...

Henry David Thoreau: Behave so the...

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

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Henry David Thoreau: If we were...

Henry David Thoreau: If we were...

If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal...

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Henry David Thoreau: Why level downward...

Henry David Thoreau: Why level downward...

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense...

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Henry David Thoreau: The universe seems...

Henry David Thoreau: The universe seems...

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

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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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