Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better,...

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better,...

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind...

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind...

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less...

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became...

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that...

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that...

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is...

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

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

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

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to...

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to...

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It...

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It...

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.