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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
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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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
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The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good but a calculation of the Profitable.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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