Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, its fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; its a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. – Samuel Beckett

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I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. – Richard Steele

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Silence was never written down. – Italian Proverb

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Silence is the virtue of fools. – Francis Bacon

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