Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is st...
THOMAS CARLYLE Live or die, don't hang in between.
NEHA KOTHARI But whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
...
MICHAEL JOSEPH BARRY The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pa...
LOIS LOWRY A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
PERCIVAL ARLAND USSHER A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirit...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER Truth or Dare ?
Dare!
Love me Back!
ANSHUL SRIVASTAVA No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth sco...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness w...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The truth can be known or realized but cannot be change or modify.
ROSHAN SHARMA No man in the past, present or future can manage time!! Every man in the past, present and future co...
ANUROOP TYAGI Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers...
GORE VIDAL The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only...
JACK BOWMAN Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none...
JOHN DONNE [Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been aske...
JAMES A. FROUDE No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by th...
JAMES B. CONANT Think about it, the only people you can TRUST are Marijuana activists!
MALCOLM NOTHLING Some people lie and never tell the truth so won't hurt the person they love.
Some people lie and the...
VANDA M In that instance I realized that I was going to live or die. It's kind of like your experience, Susa...
HELEN BOLLING Binary approach is an obsolete school of thought in the process of structuring human perception towa...
TOBA BETA 'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this...
SETH GABEL Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is...
JAMES A. GARFIELD A dream doesn't die because it has no truth. It dies because you fail to nurture it.
SUSIE CLEVENGER No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being ...
ALAN ALDA The greatest legacy a father can leave for his children before he departs is PEACE, otherwise his pr...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her ...
JASON EVERT In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but world...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
ANDREW MURRAY No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or pe...
JEFF LINDSAY Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from hi...
KING SOLOMON For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought
with it the means of seeing."
...
THOMAS CARLYLE I realized it was either get sober or keep going down the road I was on and die.
ANGIE RIDINGS Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the
plausible pretence th...
CHARLES DICKENS Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
SARAH DESSEN Of all the world's enjoyments
That ever valued were,
There's none of our employments
Wit...
THOMAS DURFEE (OR D'URFEY) I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOL No man in the past, present or future can manage time!! Every man in the past, present and future co...
ANUROOP TYAGI When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,...
EURIPIDES In their day, no man worthy of the presidency would ever stoop to campaigning for it. George Washing...
JOHN DICKERSON No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation...
FRANK NORRIS An author departs, he does not die
DINAH MARIA MULOCK but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No! When he suffers a disease? No! When he ate a so...
EIICHIRō ODA One day I woke up and realized no amount of love, care, pain, hurt, anger, or retribution could ever...
KEN POIROT God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it i...
C.S. LEWIS No young man believes he shall ever die
WILLIAM HAZLITT No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the sour...
BARRY LONG the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but somethi...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her ...
FULTON J. SHEEN I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS No man was ever great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man was ever wise by chance.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No man was ever wise by chance
SENECA Naked a man comes from his mothers womb,
and as he comes, so he departs.
He takes nothin...
KING SOLOMON Carlyle! The man with a thousand faces.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often, as intolerance
HENRY WARD BEECHER No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification...
JOHN WESLEY There is no paradise for you or me.
MAZ NO PARADISE The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom...
H. L. MENCKEN Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 We have all the reason in the world to...
JOHN TILLOTSON I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?
, SEX AND THE CITY, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, 2000 I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing but the present, or nothing but...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES I do not know which makes a man more conservativeto know nothing but the present, or nothing but t...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but th...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but ...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be prot...
JOHN MILTON People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory ...
ECKHART TOLLE The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we m...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, eith...
SOCRATES Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? / Jesus sa...
BIBLE No One and Nothing Dies In Photography
DEEPAK KUMAR I began to doubt that I would ever know the truth of what transpired, or who those people really wer...
JAMES CASKEY It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in...
CHARLES MORGAN There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological ...
GEORGE WALD The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, c...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodne...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS No man can ever refine the word Opportunity by removing work.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort whic...
GOTTHOLD LESSING Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
HANNAH ARENDT Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisi...
WILLIAM GLASSER What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisi...
WILLIAM GLASSER Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that val...
THOMAS HOBBES So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its fi...
CRISS JAMI Nothing associated with Steve was ever late or untidy. If he can get the Windows crowd to that state...
JIM MCCARTHY How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses...
HANNAH ARENDT The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always d...
CHRISTOPHER LANGAN Never ever let your hope and faith in God die. Keep hoping until hope dies; remember, however, that ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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THOMAS CARLYLE One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
THOMAS CARLYLE Song is the heroics of speech.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
THOMAS CARLYLE A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
THOMAS CARLYLE Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
THOMAS CARLYLE Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the t...
THOMAS CARLYLE Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
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THOMAS CARLYLE A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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THOMAS CARLYLE If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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THOMAS CARLYLE He that can work is born to be king of something.
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THOMAS CARLYLE A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convuls...
THOMAS CARLYLE The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
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THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLE No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in...
THOMAS CARLYLE