The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
Thomas Carlyle

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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but it is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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The idea is in thyself. The impediment, too, is in thyself.
- Thomas Carlyle

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it. Thomas Carlyle

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
Thomas Carlyle