Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. - T

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. – Thomas Carlyle

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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. – Thomas Carlyle

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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle

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He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. – Isaac Asimov

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What is the difference between men and women? A woman wants one man to satisfy her every need, and a man wants every woman to satisfy his one need. – Author Unknown

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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Its rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether its Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends. – Stephen Fry

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