Edward Carpenter Quotes

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• We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.
• Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.
• Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
• I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.
• What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true…
• Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the…
• Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
• I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment…
• Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.
• With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
• My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
• I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
• IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.
• IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law…
• The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage…
• The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.
• When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though…
• Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest…
• For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of…
• I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible…

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