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William Wordsworth: A primrose by...

William Wordsworth: A primrose by...

A primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.


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G K Chesterton: Just the other...

G K Chesterton: Just the other...

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three...

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G K Chesterton: The strangest whim...

G K Chesterton: The strangest whim...

The strangest whim has seized me
. . . After all
I think I will not hang myself...

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G K Chesterton: Man seems to...

G K Chesterton: Man seems to...

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping...

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G K Chesterton: A woman uses...

G K Chesterton: A woman uses...

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Source: In...

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G K Chesterton: I want to...

G K Chesterton: I want to...

I want to reassure you I am not this size, really - dear me no, I'm being amplified by the...

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G K Chesterton: Boyhood is a...

G K Chesterton: Boyhood is a...

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what...

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G K Chesterton: I owe my...

G K Chesterton: I owe my...

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact...

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G K Chesterton: The family is...

G K Chesterton: The family is...

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by...

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G K Chesterton: Merely having an...

G K Chesterton: Merely having an...

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Crime is common....

Arthur Conan Doyle: Crime is common....

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime you should...

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Henry David Thoreau: What right have...

Henry David Thoreau: What right have...

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Source: Letter, 2 Mar...

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Thomas Carlyle: Close thy Byron;...

Thomas Carlyle: Close thy Byron;...

Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.

Source: Sartor Resartus, Bk ii. Ch. 9
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Thomas Carlyle: Figure him there,...

Thomas Carlyle: Figure him there,...

Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts;...

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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: Good breeding. ....

Thomas Carlyle: Good breeding. ....

Good breeding. . . differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather...

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Thomas Carlyle: He that can...

Thomas Carlyle: He that can...

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: Great men are...

Thomas Carlyle: Great men are...

Great men are commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are...

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Thomas Carlyle: I have seen...

Thomas Carlyle: I have seen...

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher...

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Thomas Carlyle: Heroism is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Heroism is the...

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

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