Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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