Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLENo man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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