I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to...

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to...

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all...

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all...

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast...

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast...

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to...

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to...

Wonder is the basis of worship

Wonder is the basis of worship

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest

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

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

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man...

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man...

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough...

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough...

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always...

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always...

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...

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart...

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart...

...now as we induldge, in things refined, we hide our hearts, from harder times...

...now as we induldge, in things refined, we hide our hearts, from harder times...

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot...

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot...

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around...

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around...

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount...

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount...