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Thomas Carlyle: What you see,...

Thomas Carlyle: What you see,...

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Carlyle: Youth is to...

Thomas Carlyle: Youth is to...

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it...

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Henry David Thoreau: We worship not...

Henry David Thoreau: We worship not...

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head...

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Henry David Thoreau: If you give...

Henry David Thoreau: If you give...

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Henry David Thoreau: If you would...

Henry David Thoreau: If you would...

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

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Henry David Thoreau: The art of...

Henry David Thoreau: The art of...

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

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Henry David Thoreau: Even the best...

Henry David Thoreau: Even the best...

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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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: Produce! Produce! Were...

Thomas Carlyle: Produce! Produce! Were...

Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name! 'Tis the...

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Thomas Carlyle: The dust of...

Thomas Carlyle: The dust of...

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Carlyle: Science must have...

Thomas Carlyle: Science must have...

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Source: In...

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Thomas Carlyle: The Public is...

Thomas Carlyle: The Public is...

The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.

Source: Journal, 1835
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Thomas Carlyle: There are but...

Thomas Carlyle: There are but...

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying...

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Thomas Carlyle: The past is...

Thomas Carlyle: The past is...

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

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G K Chesterton: Education is the...

G K Chesterton: Education is the...

Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want...

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G K Chesterton: But there is...

G K Chesterton: But there is...

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal...

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G K Chesterton: If our caricaturists...

G K Chesterton: If our caricaturists...

If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their...

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G K Chesterton: How beautiful it...

G K Chesterton: How beautiful it...

How beautiful it would be for someone who could not read.

Source: Attributed.
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G K Chesterton: Architecture is the...

G K Chesterton: Architecture is the...

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of...

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G K Chesterton: The noble temptation...

G K Chesterton: The noble temptation...

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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