Quote by Thomas Carlyle
No age seemed the age of romance to itself. - Thomas Carlyle

No age seemed the age of romance to itself. – Thomas Carlyle

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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman

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Romance

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving ones self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde

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Romance

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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Romance

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. – Carol Ann Duffy

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I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when Im upside down. – Mitch Hedberg

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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. – John Greenleaf Whittier

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If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people. – John Jay Chapman

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