Silence is more eloquent than words.
THOMAS CARLYLESpeech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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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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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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