Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind o

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. – Thomas Carlyle

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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one. – Joan Baez

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire. – W. H. Auden

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. – Mary Catherwood

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second- rate technology, led them into it in the first place. – Douglas Adams

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