Thomas Carlyle

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
Work alone is noble.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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