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

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

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Commitment
Author
Thomas Carlyle
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Cooking, Culinary
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Thomas Carlyle
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Spirituality
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This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge. – Ezra Taft Benson

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Spirituality

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. – George Champman

Category:
Spirituality

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

Category:
Spirituality

You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself. – Buddha

Category:
Spirituality

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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. – Daisaku Ikeda

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