If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Wonder is the basis of worship

Wonder is the basis of worship

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

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...

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Ridicule is the language of the devil

Ridicule is the language of the devil

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men,...

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men,...

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people...

Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people...

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it,...

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it,...

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Wonder is the basis of worship.