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.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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