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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Mystery
Thomas Carlyle

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Speech
Thomas Carlyle

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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Advice
Thomas Carlyle

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Leaders and Leadership
Thomas Carlyle

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Sentiment
Thomas Carlyle

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
Belief
Thomas Carlyle

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books - Reading
Thomas Carlyle

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Courage
Thomas Carlyle

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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
Despair
Thomas Carlyle

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Action
Thomas Carlyle

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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Doubt
Thomas Carlyle

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The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Faults
Thomas Carlyle

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.
Heart
Thomas Carlyle

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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
History and Historians
Thomas Carlyle

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
Belief
Thomas Carlyle

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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Churches
Thomas Carlyle

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Life and Living
Thomas Carlyle

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The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Libraries
Thomas Carlyle

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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Mediocrity
Thomas Carlyle

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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Proverbs
Thomas Carlyle

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Wonder is the basis of worship.
Wonder
Thomas Carlyle

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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Excellence
Andrew Carnegie

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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Ability
Andrew Carnegie

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No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Delegation
Andrew Carnegie

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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Wealth
Andrew Carnegie

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun