There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
THOMAS CARLYLESpeech is silver, silence is golden.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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