Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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