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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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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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History is a great dust heap.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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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.
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Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
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Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
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