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Thomas Carlyle on Mother's Day

1795–1881 Scotland

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For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Love not Pleasure; love God.

Sartor Resartus (1833)

Let Time and Chance combine, combine!
Let Time and Chance combine!
The fairest love from heaven above,
That love of yours was mine,
My Dear!
That love of yours was mine.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Carlyle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.