Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. - Thomas Carly

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men
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The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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Clothing
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Upturned toward the sun, eyes closed. That color and warmth I see and feel is the soul on fire. If only it remained when again my eyes opened. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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Soul

The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves. – Proverb

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Soul

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Soul

It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth. – George S. Merriam

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Soul

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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything. – Anthony Trollope

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I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania. – Sharon Stone

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I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay. – Sloane Crosley

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When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self. – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience,” translated from French by Charles Cotton

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