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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we t

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. – Thomas Carlyle

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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. – Thomas Carlyle

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Death
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. – Thomas Carlyle

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Seasons
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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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Men
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China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesnt have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers – the kind of people the U.S. is built upon. – James Dyson

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Ive never been nostalgic, personally or politically – if the past was so great, how come its history? – Julie Burchill

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History — that little sewer where man loves to wallow. – Francis Ponge

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For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. – Michael Pollan

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