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Upon Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
- But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of…
- Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
- Society is founded upon Cloth;
- History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
- A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
- Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as…
- There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
- May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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