Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. - Th

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. – Thomas Carlyle

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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. – Thomas Carlyle

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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

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Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt

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I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. – Charles Horton Cooley

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If egotism means a terrific interest in ones self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. – Arnold Bennett

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The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are. – E. M. Cioran

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Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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