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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#exact #government #like #long-run #people

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#chilling #come #contentious #does #lap

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#eyes #ghost #pair #seen #two

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#dishonest #free #heart #life #man

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#family #obligation #teaching

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#blade #every #eyes #god #grass

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#minority #new #opinion #precisely #starting

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#confined #human #human species #laughter #privileges

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

— Thomas Carlyle

#called #darkness #game #love #love is

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#elbow #giving #himself #lives #man