When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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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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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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