Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLETell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A man lives by believing something.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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