The tragedy of life is not so much what we suffer, — Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of life is not so much what we suffer, but rather what we miss.
More by Thomas Carlyle
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form, is a wrappage of traditions, hearsays, mere words.
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The firstling of the infant year. Poems. The Primrose
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate , more important far than they all.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
I can resist everything except temptation. Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) act 1
Oscar Wilde
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire