Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
Quotes to Explore
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.
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I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
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You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.
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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
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Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…
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Nog remembered what an Earth-style omelet was made from, from his time at Starfleet Academy—bird eggs and flavored mold. In a word, revolting.
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It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.
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There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.
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For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.
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The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
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After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.
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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.
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Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.
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'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
