Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. – Thomas Carlyle

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Silence
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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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good
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men
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Other Quotes from
Hmmm
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Between the figure and the shadow is where all the secret energy lies. – Terri Guillemets

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Hmmm

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window. – Jules Renard, Journal, 1906

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Hmmm

And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. – Bill Knott, “(End) of Summer (1966)” (Thanks, Laurie)

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Hmmm

The devil needs no convincing of the poison in your elixir. But did you really think you had medicine? – Terri Guillemets

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Hmmm

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Im just an individual who doesnt feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. Im working for me. – David Bowie

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work

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. – Carl Sandburg

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Poetry

A miracle… my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because its hard, everyone knows its hard. – Gwen Stefani

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Marriage

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

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Change