Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. – 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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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. – Thomas Carlyle

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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. – William Blake

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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the masters master, the genius of the age. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Nobody is too old for fairy tales. – Author unknown

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