Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. - Thomas Carlyle

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government. – Thomas Carlyle

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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. – John Muir, 1869, My First Summer in the Sierra

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We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. – Christopher Isherwood

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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh

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The future influences the present just as much as the past. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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