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Thomas Carlyle Quotes: Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
         

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.


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



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



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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.



A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.



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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.



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