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Creature Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow…
- Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
- The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to…
- Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
- For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
- Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.…
- Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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