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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: 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: I call the...

Thomas Carlyle: I call the...

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the...

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Thomas Carlyle: Men do less...

Thomas Carlyle: Men do less...

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Source: In Webster's...

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Thomas Carlyle: If a man...

Thomas Carlyle: If a man...

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Source: In...

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Thomas Carlyle: Lives there the...

Thomas Carlyle: Lives there the...

Lives there the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of...

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Thomas Carlyle: Reality, if rightly...

Thomas Carlyle: Reality, if rightly...

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Carlyle: The crash of...

Thomas Carlyle: The crash of...

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

Source:...

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Thomas Carlyle: That monstrous tuberosity...

Thomas Carlyle: That monstrous tuberosity...

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

Source:...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Can there be...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Can there be...

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: The greater the...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: The greater the...

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Nancy Astor: I used to...

Nancy Astor: I used to...

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that...

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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.

Source:...

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Henry David Thoreau: My facts shall...

Henry David Thoreau: My facts shall...

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be...

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Henry David Thoreau: Being is the...

Henry David Thoreau: Being is the...

Being is the great explainer.

Source: Journals, entry 26 Feb 1841.
-- Henry...

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Henry David Thoreau: To watch this...

Henry David Thoreau: To watch this...

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling...

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Henry David Thoreau: It is easier...

Henry David Thoreau: It is easier...

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred...

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Henry David Thoreau: The law will...

Henry David Thoreau: The law will...

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

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Henry David Thoreau: However intense my...

Henry David Thoreau: However intense my...

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not...

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Henry David Thoreau: Having each some...

Henry David Thoreau: Having each some...

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

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