It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift, is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

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.

All that is not given is lost.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.