Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.


Thomas Carlyle

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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconsciou...
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can ...
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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History is the distillation of rumor.
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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soa...
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest wer...
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All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Div...
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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The heart always sees before than the head can see.
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
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No violent extreme endures.
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What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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