In idleness there is a perpetual despair. -Thomas Carlyle

 

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.


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

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

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