Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.
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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
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Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.
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I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy.
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To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.
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Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.
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Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.
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I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.
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There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.
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In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.
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A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.
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But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing...
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And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
