Scottish - Philosopher | December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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