Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLESpeech is silver, silence is golden.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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