They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
THOMAS CARLYLEWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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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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