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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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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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History is the new poetry.
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under learn from it, turn it to account.
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What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
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