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In books lies the soul of the whole past time. - Thomas Carlyle

In books lies the soul of the whole past time. – Thomas Carlyle

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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. – Thomas Carlyle

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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. – Abraham Lincoln

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The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. – Robert Southey

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Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, dont sit in the dark hiding. Its easy to hide and shout and waste peoples time. – Billy Connolly

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I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors appointments or bringing their infants into the office. – Hillary Clinton

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Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. – Lord Jeffrey

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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. – Saint Augustine

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Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. – Stanislaus I, Maxims

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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