More quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.'
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
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