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| Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. | | Hope | |
| Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. | | Uncategorized | |
| Manners are stronger than laws | | Manners | |
| MARGARET FULLER: I accept the universe. CARLYLE: Gad! she'd better! | | Uncategorized | |
| Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable. | | Uncategorized | |
| Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. | | Uncategorized | |
| Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. | | Uncategorized | |
| Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only. | | Uncategorized | |
| Music is well said to be the speech of angels. | | Music | |
| Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. | | Music | |
| Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness | | Uncategorized | |
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| No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. | | Uncategorized | |
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| No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. | | Uncategorized | |
| No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. | | Uncategorized | |
| No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. | | Uncategorized | |
| No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. | | Uncategorized | |
