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

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. – Thomas Carlyle

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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. – Thomas Carlyle

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It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. – Paul Eldridge

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Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that. – Erich Heller

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While his eyes saw the sky, his soul saw Heaven. – K. Smith

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