A person usually has two reasons for doing something a good reason and the real reason.
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that.Thomas Carlyle
The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder and worship, ... is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.
Thomas Carlyle
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas Carlyle
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance.
Thomas Carlyle
Ridicule is the language of the devil.
Thomas Carlyle
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Thomas Carlyle
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