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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

~Thomas Carlyle

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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 4th, 1795

Died: February 5th, 1881

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