"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
-Thomas Carlyle
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"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.“
-Thomas Carlyle
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"He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything."
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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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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
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