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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas Carlyle
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas Carlyle
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Thomas Carlyle
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas Carlyle
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
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