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

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, its fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; its a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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Competition
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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! – Thomas Carlyle

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Music
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We are spirits clad in veils. – Christopher P. Cranch

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Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. – S.A. Sachs

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It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. – John L. McClenahan

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Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. – Zen Saying

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There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. – Scottish Proverb

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How wonderfully these pictures have caught the look of tentative spring—spring waiting for a single day to burst into living green. – Alice Morse Earle, “In Lilac Tide,” Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth, 1901

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. – Conrad Black

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