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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
«Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.»
«Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
at ease, brandish, brandished, brandishing, censer, cookery, elect, frying, frying pan, incense, Pan
«Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.»
«No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
black spot, declares, grumble, grumbles, grumbling, maltreated, might-have-been, omnipotence, proprietor, vintage
