Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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 well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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