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Old Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
- The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
- Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among…
- Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
- The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but…
- By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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