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Quotes by Thomas Carlyle "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." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "The true university of these days is a collection of books." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "Music is well said to be the speech of angels." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. " By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "When words leave off, music begins." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "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." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books" By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "In idleness there is a perpetual despair." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site "Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death." By Thomas Carlyle Post to mySpace/your site Page(s)  1 2 3