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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a 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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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
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The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being expand, if possible, to his full growth resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
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