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Wells Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
- A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
- Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
- There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.
- The actual well seen is ideal.
- 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…
- Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose…
- If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily…
- The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like…
- No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
- Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of…
- High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
- Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite…
- Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine.…
- The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong