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“ No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. ”

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

~ Thomas Carlyle

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything

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Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

~ Thomas Carlyle

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

~ Thomas Carlyle