Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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