William Carleton Quotes

• Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

  William Carleton

  Fire, Advice, Kites

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• Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

  William Carleton

  Strong, Character, Men

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• Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.

  William Carleton

  Philosophy, Feelings, Certain

  William Carleton (1850). “The Clarionet, the Dead Boxer, and Barney Branagan. [From “The Fawn of Spring-Vale ... and Other Tales.”]”, p.18

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