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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.


Thomas Carlyle

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THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLE