Quote by Thomas Carlyle
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It

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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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it. – Thomas Carlyle

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. – Thomas Carlyle

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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, youve created a special little thing, and thats what Im looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. – Paul Simon

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One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool. – Chinese Proverb

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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. – Leo Rosten

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Ive never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. Theres his humor and intelligence, too, and hes really cute, all those things – but if you dont respect your partner, youll get sick of him. – Michelle Pfeiffer

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To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder. – Louis LAmour

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Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature. – Andrea Arnold

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Memory itself is an internal rumour. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. – Alfred Austin

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