If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Author: Thomas Carlyle

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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle, wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more to whosoever will think of it.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.