Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.
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Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.
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My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
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The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
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The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.
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Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
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Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
