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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not b

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

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This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep. – Robert Frost

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. – Jane Austen

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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. – Elizabeth Drew

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This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. – Terry Tempest Williams

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I dont play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. – Dick Dale

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