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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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. – Thomas Carlyle

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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it. – Anthony Liccione

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

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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. – Aesop

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Poverty is the mother of crime. – Marcus Aurelius

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