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Lies Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
- Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to…
- History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what…
- Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the…
- What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that…
- The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
- In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
- Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the…
- The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
- In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it…
- In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
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