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Less Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
- Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
- I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a…
- In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol…
- Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
- What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion,…
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