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To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and...
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man,...
This Mirabeau's work, then, is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: Abiit ad...
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and...
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Source: In
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Source: In
To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
Source: History of the French...
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not...
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Source: In
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
Source: In
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Source: In
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid,...
Vain hope to make people happy by politics!
Source: 'Journal', Oct. 10, 1831
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We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest...
The heart always sees before than the head can see.
Source: In
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant...
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest,...
Violence does even justice unjustly.
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-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4...