"Do not think too much of the dead……" — Edward Carpenter
"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it."
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Edward Carpenter
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23 Quotes by Edward Carpenter
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Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.
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I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.
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What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is…
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Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
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I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently…
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Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.
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With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often…
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My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
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I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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