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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. - Thomas Carlyle

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. – Thomas Carlyle

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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. – Thomas Carlyle

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. – Thomas Carlyle

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Age
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The map is not the territory. – Alfred Korzybski

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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. – Bertrand Russell

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A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. – Lee Segall

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