Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it is the Gospel of Despair!.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Debt is a bottomless sea.

Debt is a bottomless sea.

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...

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.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on...

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on...

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...

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.

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing...

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing...

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...

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

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...

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this,...

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this,...

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't...

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't...

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to...

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to...

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...