A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It...

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better....

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better....

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

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

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to...

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to...

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Ridicule is the language of the devil

Ridicule is the language of the devil

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to...

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to...

No pressure, no diamonds.

No pressure, no diamonds.

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an...

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an...

No person is important enough to make me angry.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Use your brain, not your endurance.

Use your brain, not your endurance.

You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say...

You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say...

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.