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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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. – Thomas Carlyle

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. – Thomas Carlyle

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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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What will the world be quite overturned when you die? – Epictetus

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Ego

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

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The great corrupter of public man is the ego….Looking at the mirror distracts ones attention from the problem. – Dean Acheson

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