Quote #46
With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.
More from Thomas Carlyle
- Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it.
- Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
- What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
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- Wonder is the basis of worship.
- Love not Pleasure; love God.
- Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.
- 'Do the Duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer.