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The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/33303…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #action #book #excitement #inspiration #motivation #reading #spur
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The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/33303…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #action #book #excitement #inspiration #motivation #reading #spur
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The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/33303…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #action #book #excitement #inspiration #motivation #reading #spur
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The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/33303…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #action #book #excitement #inspiration #motivation #reading #spur
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The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/33303…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #action #book #excitement #inspiration #motivation #reading #spur
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A quotation (probably) from Carlyle
I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22450…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #agreement #boredom #conversation #dialog #discussion #echo #interaction #similarity #tiresomeness
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A quotation (probably) from Carlyle
I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22450…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #agreement #boredom #conversation #dialog #discussion #echo #interaction #similarity #tiresomeness
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A quotation (probably) from Carlyle
I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22450…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #agreement #boredom #conversation #dialog #discussion #echo #interaction #similarity #tiresomeness
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A quotation (probably) from Carlyle
I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22450…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #agreement #boredom #conversation #dialog #discussion #echo #interaction #similarity #tiresomeness
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/733/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #firststep #honesty #rascal #reform #scoundrel #selfawareness #selfcorrection
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/733/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #firststep #honesty #rascal #reform #scoundrel #selfawareness #selfcorrection
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/733/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #firststep #honesty #rascal #reform #scoundrel #selfawareness #selfcorrection
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/733/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #firststep #honesty #rascal #reform #scoundrel #selfawareness #selfcorrection
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A quotation (not) from Thomas Carlyle
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Spurious)Much more about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85318…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #character #greatman #greatperson #greatness #littleguy #littlepeople #strength #weakness
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A quotation (not) from Thomas Carlyle
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Spurious)Much more about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85318…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #character #greatman #greatperson #greatness #littleguy #littlepeople #strength #weakness
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A quotation (not) from Thomas Carlyle
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Spurious)Much more about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85318…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #character #greatman #greatperson #greatness #littleguy #littlepeople #strength #weakness
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A quotation (not) from Thomas Carlyle
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Spurious)Much more about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85318…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #character #greatman #greatperson #greatness #littleguy #littlepeople #strength #weakness
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A quotation (not) from Thomas Carlyle
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Spurious)Much more about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85318…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #character #greatman #greatperson #greatness #littleguy #littlepeople #strength #weakness
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
-- Thomas Carlyle⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasCarlyle #Books #Reading #Professors
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
-- Thomas Carlyle⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasCarlyle #Books #Reading #Professors
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
-- Thomas Carlyle⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasCarlyle #Books #Reading #Professors
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
-- Thomas Carlyle⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasCarlyle #Books #Reading #Professors
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
-- Thomas Carlyle⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasCarlyle #Books #Reading #Professors
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At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #pawns #battle #casualties #classwarfare #death #soldier #war #waste
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At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #pawns #battle #casualties #classwarfare #death #soldier #war #waste
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At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #pawns #battle #casualties #classwarfare #death #soldier #war #waste
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At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #pawns #battle #casualties #classwarfare #death #soldier #war #waste
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"Look at men, how they struggle after happiness and satisfaction! Their wishes, their toil, their gold, are ever hunting restlessly,--and after what? After that which the poet has received from nature,--the right enjoyment of the world, the feeling of himself in others, the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together."
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"Look at men, how they struggle after happiness and satisfaction! Their wishes, their toil, their gold, are ever hunting restlessly,--and after what? After that which the poet has received from nature,--the right enjoyment of the world, the feeling of himself in others, the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together."
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"Look at men, how they struggle after happiness and satisfaction! Their wishes, their toil, their gold, are ever hunting restlessly,--and after what? After that which the poet has received from nature,--the right enjoyment of the world, the feeling of himself in others, the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together."
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"Look at men, how they struggle after happiness and satisfaction! Their wishes, their toil, their gold, are ever hunting restlessly,--and after what? After that which the poet has received from nature,--the right enjoyment of the world, the feeling of himself in others, the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together."
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"Look at men, how they struggle after happiness and satisfaction! Their wishes, their toil, their gold, are ever hunting restlessly,--and after what? After that which the poet has received from nature,--the right enjoyment of the world, the feeling of himself in others, the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together."
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“Genius” (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Book 4, ch. 3 (1858–1865)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84804…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #bothering #care #detail #detailoriented #focus #genius #takingpains
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“Genius” (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Book 4, ch. 3 (1858–1865)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84804…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #bothering #care #detail #detailoriented #focus #genius #takingpains
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“Genius” (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Book 4, ch. 3 (1858–1865)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84804…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #bothering #care #detail #detailoriented #focus #genius #takingpains
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“Genius” (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Book 4, ch. 3 (1858–1865)More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84804…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #bothering #care #detail #detailoriented #focus #genius #takingpains
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So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Poem (1837-08), “Today,” st. 1More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84633…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #carpediem #creation #dawn #idleness #indolence #liveinthepresent #opportunity #passageoftime #present #seizetheday #sloth #today
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So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Poem (1837-08), “Today,” st. 1More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84633…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #carpediem #creation #dawn #idleness #indolence #liveinthepresent #opportunity #passageoftime #present #seizetheday #sloth #today
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So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Poem (1837-08), “Today,” st. 1More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84633…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #carpediem #creation #dawn #idleness #indolence #liveinthepresent #opportunity #passageoftime #present #seizetheday #sloth #today
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So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Poem (1837-08), “Today,” st. 1More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84633…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #carpediem #creation #dawn #idleness #indolence #liveinthepresent #opportunity #passageoftime #present #seizetheday #sloth #today
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One life; a little gleam between two eternities.
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One life; a little gleam between two eternities.
-- Thomas Carlyle -
One life; a little gleam between two eternities.
-- Thomas Carlyle -
One life; a little gleam between two eternities.
-- Thomas Carlyle -
One life; a little gleam between two eternities.
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1828-05), “Goethe’s Helena,” Foreign Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 5More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84415…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #acquisition #action #doing #gain #life #meaningoflife #profit
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1828-05), “Goethe’s Helena,” Foreign Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 5More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84415…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #acquisition #action #doing #gain #life #meaningoflife #profit
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1828-05), “Goethe’s Helena,” Foreign Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 5More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84415…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #acquisition #action #doing #gain #life #meaningoflife #profit
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1828-05), “Goethe’s Helena,” Foreign Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 5More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84415…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #acquisition #action #doing #gain #life #meaningoflife #profit
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1828-05), “Goethe’s Helena,” Foreign Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 5More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84415…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #acquisition #action #doing #gain #life #meaningoflife #profit
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version 1: the letter
"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a letter to a friend, which, however, does not find him, but is brought back to us, and we open it at the distance of some considerable time, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."
#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2
version 2: the toot
"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a [toot] to [the Fediverse], and at the distance of some considerable time it is brought back to us [by a belated boost], and we open it, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."
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version 1: the letter
"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a letter to a friend, which, however, does not find him, but is brought back to us, and we open it at the distance of some considerable time, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."
#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2
version 2: the toot
"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a [toot] to [the Fediverse], and at the distance of some considerable time it is brought back to us [by a belated boost], and we open it, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."
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version 1: the letter
"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a letter to a friend, which, however, does not find him, but is brought back to us, and we open it at the distance of some considerable time, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."
#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2
version 2: the toot
"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a [toot] to [the Fediverse], and at the distance of some considerable time it is brought back to us [by a belated boost], and we open it, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."
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version 1: the letter
"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a letter to a friend, which, however, does not find him, but is brought back to us, and we open it at the distance of some considerable time, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."
#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2
version 2: the toot
"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a [toot] to [the Fediverse], and at the distance of some considerable time it is brought back to us [by a belated boost], and we open it, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."
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version 1: the letter
"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a letter to a friend, which, however, does not find him, but is brought back to us, and we open it at the distance of some considerable time, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."
#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2
version 2: the toot
"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a [toot] to [the Fediverse], and at the distance of some considerable time it is brought back to us [by a belated boost], and we open it, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."
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"... for youth, which is so rich in undeveloped force, knows not what it squanders when, to the anguish which a loss occasions, it adds so many sorrows of its own production, as if it meant then first to give the right value to what is gone forever."
"He likewise felt so convinced that his present loss was the sole, the first, the last, he ever could experience in life, that he turned away from every consolation which aimed at showing that his sorrows might be less than endless."
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"... for youth, which is so rich in undeveloped force, knows not what it squanders when, to the anguish which a loss occasions, it adds so many sorrows of its own production, as if it meant then first to give the right value to what is gone forever."
"He likewise felt so convinced that his present loss was the sole, the first, the last, he ever could experience in life, that he turned away from every consolation which aimed at showing that his sorrows might be less than endless."
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"... for youth, which is so rich in undeveloped force, knows not what it squanders when, to the anguish which a loss occasions, it adds so many sorrows of its own production, as if it meant then first to give the right value to what is gone forever."
"He likewise felt so convinced that his present loss was the sole, the first, the last, he ever could experience in life, that he turned away from every consolation which aimed at showing that his sorrows might be less than endless."
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"... for youth, which is so rich in undeveloped force, knows not what it squanders when, to the anguish which a loss occasions, it adds so many sorrows of its own production, as if it meant then first to give the right value to what is gone forever."
"He likewise felt so convinced that his present loss was the sole, the first, the last, he ever could experience in life, that he turned away from every consolation which aimed at showing that his sorrows might be less than endless."
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"... for youth, which is so rich in undeveloped force, knows not what it squanders when, to the anguish which a loss occasions, it adds so many sorrows of its own production, as if it meant then first to give the right value to what is gone forever."
"He likewise felt so convinced that his present loss was the sole, the first, the last, he ever could experience in life, that he turned away from every consolation which aimed at showing that his sorrows might be less than endless."