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Than Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
- Silence is more eloquent than words.
- There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
- I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
- Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
- No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it;…
- True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter,…
- Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own…
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