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Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
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