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A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress. - [Dandy] A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. - [Genius] A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever. - [Awe] A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. - [Statistics] A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. - [Laughter] A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me. - [Falsehood] A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books. - [Books] A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself. - [Aspiration : Associates] A noble book! all men's book! - [Bible] A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest. - [Man] A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. - [Bigotry] A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages. - [Opportunity] Action hangs, as it were, "dissolved in speech; in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. - [Action] Affectation is the product of falsehood. - [Affectation] Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours. - [Ideality] Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. - [Unbelief] All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once. - quoted in Froude's "Early Life of Carlyle" [History] All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled, spreads till all is luminous. - [Light] All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. - [Work] All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books. - [Education] All true work is sacred. - [Labor] At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet. - [History] Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren. - [Authorship] Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise! - [Morality] Biography is the only true history. - [Biography] Displaying page 1 of 13 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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