If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.
Tag: Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.