Thomas carlyle
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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