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Henry David Thoreau: The perch swallows...

Henry David Thoreau: The perch swallows...

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all...

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Henry David Thoreau: I went to...

Henry David Thoreau: I went to...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I...

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Henry David Thoreau: Experience is in...

Henry David Thoreau: Experience is in...

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Source: In...

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Henry David Thoreau: We are always...

Henry David Thoreau: We are always...

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Source: In...

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Thomas Carlyle: Conviction never so...

Thomas Carlyle: Conviction never so...

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

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Thomas Carlyle: France was long...

Thomas Carlyle: France was long...

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

Source: History of the French...

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Thomas Carlyle: For the 'superior...

Thomas Carlyle: For the 'superior...

For the 'superior morality,' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were...

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Thomas Carlyle: Foolish men imagine...

Thomas Carlyle: Foolish men imagine...

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here...

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Thomas Carlyle: History shows that...

Thomas Carlyle: History shows that...

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in...

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Thomas Carlyle: In a controversy...

Thomas Carlyle: In a controversy...

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for...

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Thomas Carlyle: Laughter is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Laughter is the...

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man.

Source: In The...

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Thomas Carlyle: Man is emphatically...

Thomas Carlyle: Man is emphatically...

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: Man's unhappiness, as...

Thomas Carlyle: Man's unhappiness, as...

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all...

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Thomas Carlyle: One is hardly...

Thomas Carlyle: One is hardly...

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Source: In The...

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Thomas Carlyle: Men's hearts ought...

Thomas Carlyle: Men's hearts ought...

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil...

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Thomas Carlyle: No iron chain,...

Thomas Carlyle: No iron chain,...

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to...

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Thomas Carlyle: One must verify...

Thomas Carlyle: One must verify...

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

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Thomas Carlyle: No sadder proof...

Thomas Carlyle: No sadder proof...

No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great...

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Thomas Carlyle: No person was...

Thomas Carlyle: No person was...

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance,...

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Thomas Carlyle: Society is founded...

Thomas Carlyle: Society is founded...

Society is founded upon cloth.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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