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Thomas Carlyle: Be not the...

Thomas Carlyle: Be not the...

Be not the slave of Words.

Source: Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. 8
-- Thomas...

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Thomas Carlyle: Do the duty...

Thomas Carlyle: Do the duty...

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

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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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Henry David Thoreau: The way in...

Henry David Thoreau: The way in...

The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds...

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Henry David Thoreau: We shall see...

Henry David Thoreau: We shall see...

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of...

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Henry David Thoreau: Decay and disease...

Henry David Thoreau: Decay and disease...

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of...

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Henry David Thoreau: There are nine...

Henry David Thoreau: There are nine...

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

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Kathleen Norris: Just the knowledge...

Kathleen Norris: Just the knowledge...

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day...

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Never say never...

Never say never...

Never say never and always avoid always.

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

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The freakish is...

The freakish is...

The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally...

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This city is...

This city is...

This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies....

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EAT, v.i. To...

EAT, v.i. To...

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and...

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EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly...

EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly...

EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or...

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True rebels, after...

True rebels, after...

True rebels, after all, are as rare as true lovers, and, in both cases, to mistake a fever for a passion can destroy...

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Smell is a...

Smell is a...

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have...

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Good work, Mary....

Good work, Mary....

Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

Source: Telegram to a friend who...

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Common sense is...

Common sense is...

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to...

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The best path...

The best path...

The best path through life is the highway.

Source: In

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To live we...

To live we...

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Source:...

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Social movements are...

Social movements are...

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is...

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