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Otto von Bismarck: The main thing...

Otto von Bismarck: The main thing...

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

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A J Balfour: Nothing matters very...

A J Balfour: Nothing matters very...

Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all.

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A J Balfour: I rather think...

A J Balfour: I rather think...

I rather think of having a career of my own.

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Thomas Carlyle: If Jesus Christ...

Thomas Carlyle: If Jesus Christ...

If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people wouldn't even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he...

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Thomas Carlyle: Music is well...

Thomas Carlyle: Music is well...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so...

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Thomas Carlyle: No man who...

Thomas Carlyle: No man who...

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

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Thomas Carlyle: Speech is human,...

Thomas Carlyle: Speech is human,...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both...

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Thomas Carlyle: Secrecy is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Secrecy is the...

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

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Thomas Carlyle: The courage we...

Thomas Carlyle: The courage we...

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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Thomas Carlyle: Self-contemplation is infallibly...

Thomas Carlyle: Self-contemplation is infallibly...

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

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Thomas Carlyle: Sarcasm I now...

Thomas Carlyle: Sarcasm I now...

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as...

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Thomas Carlyle: The first duty...

Thomas Carlyle: The first duty...

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

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Thomas Carlyle: The greatest event...

Thomas Carlyle: The greatest event...

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

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Thomas Carlyle: The person who...

Thomas Carlyle: The person who...

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and...

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Thomas Carlyle: This Mirabeau's work,...

Thomas Carlyle: This Mirabeau's work,...

This Mirabeau's work, then, is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: Abiit ad...

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Thomas Carlyle: The fearful unbelief...

Thomas Carlyle: The fearful unbelief...

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

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Henry David Thoreau: What is peculiar...

Henry David Thoreau: What is peculiar...

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one...

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Henry David Thoreau: One of the...

Henry David Thoreau: One of the...

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

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Henry David Thoreau: We cannot well...

Henry David Thoreau: We cannot well...

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

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Henry David Thoreau: The pleasure we...

Henry David Thoreau: The pleasure we...

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

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