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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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle

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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. – Thomas Carlyle

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What we call Mans power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. – C. S. Lewis

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The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. – John Stuart Mill

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savages whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. – Ayn Rand

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