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The actual well seen is ideal. - Thomas Carlyle

The actual well seen is ideal. – Thomas Carlyle

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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortunes inequality exhibits under this sun. – Thomas Carlyle

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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. – Thomas Carlyle

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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. – William F. Buckley

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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. – A.E. Housman

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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. – Herbert Hoover

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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? – Eliza Cook

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