Quote by Thomas Carlyle
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reaso

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. – Thomas Carlyle

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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say… Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle

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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. – Thomas Carlyle

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. – Charles Baudelaire

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Men are blind in their own cause. – Heywood Broun

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur. – Italian Proverb

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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. – Thomas Aquinas

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