History: A distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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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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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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