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

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

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Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. – Thomas Carlyle

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Tools
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. – Thomas Carlyle

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Custodian Thanks
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. – Thomas Carlyle

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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. – Saint Augustine

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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. – Omar Khayyam

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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones. – William Shakespeare

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Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children. – Princess Diana

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Ah me! why may not love and life be one? – Henry Timrod

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