Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence th

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. – Thomas Carlyle

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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle

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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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And above all things, never think that youre not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. – Isaac Asimov

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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency. – Ted Nugent

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Good leaders make people feel that theyre at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. – Warren G. Bennis

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