Quote #6

So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.

More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.
  2. He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
  3. A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
  4. Here numerous persons, with big wigs many of them, and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science, start up in an a…
  5. The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
  6. A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
  7. It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
  8. A healthy hatred of scoundrels.

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