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«Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.»
«The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.»
«It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.»
«The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.»
«Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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at ease, brandish, brandished, brandishing, censer, cookery, elect, frying, frying pan, incense, Pan
«Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.»
«The devil has his elect.»
«No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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black spot, declares, grumble, grumbles, grumbling, maltreated, might-have-been, omnipotence, proprietor, vintage
«The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.»
«All great peoples are conservative.»
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