Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. - Thomas

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. – Thomas Carlyle

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Truth
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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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Society
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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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Understanding
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. – Carl Gustav Jung

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Look down at me and you see a fool; – Charles Manson

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Perspective

An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. – Michel de Montaigne

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Perspective

If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. – Benjamin Franklin

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You cannot open a book without learning something. – Confucius

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Learning

Life is hopefully long, so I dont know what the future will bring. – Bethenny Frankel

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Future

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? – Voltaire

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Experience

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. – Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930

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Science