Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
Quotes to Explore
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'
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You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.
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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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I was very well received by Dortmund, by the whole club. I felt a lot of love; a footballer is stronger when he has confidence.
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The cross can heal and hurt; it can be empowering and liberating but also enslaving and oppressive. There is no one way in which the cross can be interpreted. I offer my reflections because I believe that the cross placed alongside the lynching tree can help us to see Jesus in America in a new light, and thereby empower people who claim to follow him to take a stand against white supremacy and every kind of injustice.
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Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
