Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLETalk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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