A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLESpeech is silver, silence is golden.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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