It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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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...

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

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.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

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...

Be not a slave of words.

Be not a slave of words.

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...

Work alone is noble.

Work alone is noble.

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...

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable...

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable...

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma,...

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma,...

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its...

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they...

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they...

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that...

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that...

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it...

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it...

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.