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"Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that, being nothing, art every thing!" — Charles Lamb — Quotes for Free

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Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that, being nothing, art every thing!

Charles LambSource: Essays of Elia, Oxford in the Vacation

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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Source: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, book 1 (1690)

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Source: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought

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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again

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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.