Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLEOur grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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