Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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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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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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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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