Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. - Thomas Carlyle

Clever men are good, but they are not the best. – Thomas Carlyle

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

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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. – Thomas Carlyle

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The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not…. – Thomas Carlyle

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot

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Silence is true wisdoms best reply. – Euripides

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The best road to progress is freedoms road. – John F. Kennedy

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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. – Abraham Lincoln

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