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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#conscious #difference #great #immeasurably #jesus

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The true university of these days is a collection of books. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. ↗

— 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? ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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