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The spiritual is the parent of the practical. - Thomas Carlyle

The spiritual is the parent of the practical. – Thomas Carlyle

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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. – Thomas Carlyle

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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another? – William Jennings Bryan

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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. – Thomas Carlyle

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Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below. – Bhagavad Gita

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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. – Proverb

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