They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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