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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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