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

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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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! – Thomas Carlyle

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Music
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Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. – Terri Guillemets

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She throws her coin into a fountain already filled with hopeful coins, yet wonders if the wishes might become tangled. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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My heaviness comes from the heights. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The first step… shall be to lose the way. – Galway Kinnell

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I read the book of Job last night, I dont think God comes out well in it. – Virginia Woolf

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After all, God is God because he remembers. – Elie Wiesel

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Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established. – Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888

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