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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

Category:
Competition
Author
Thomas Carlyle
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Persuasion
Author
Thomas Carlyle
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Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. – DrSeuss

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Philosophical

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. – Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country Road of Pointed Firs, 1896

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Philosophical

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