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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

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...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

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...

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

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,...

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a...

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a...

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is...

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is...

Manners are stronger than laws

Manners are stronger than laws

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes...

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes...

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we...

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we...

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and...

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and...

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or...

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or...

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always...

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always...

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal,...

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal,...

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined...

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined...

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom