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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#burst #comes #dance #day #every

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arguing #believing #debating #lives #man

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

Silence is more eloquent than words. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. ↗