A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is...

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is...

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you...

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you...

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of...

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of...

History, a distillation of rumour.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable...

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to...

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to...

Society is founded upon cloth.

Society is founded upon cloth.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men,...

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men,...

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.