Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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