Quote by Thomas Carlyle
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. – Thomas Carlyle

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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. – Thomas Carlyle

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Death
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. – Thomas Carlyle

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good
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. – Thomas Carlyle

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. – Victor Hugo

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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. – Aristotle

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Observe all men, thyself most. – Benjamin Franklin

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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict. – Eugene Delacroix

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