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Word Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
- A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it…
- Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound…
- Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has…
- The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
- Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.
- The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
- That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean…
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- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
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- I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! — Lauren Bacall
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach