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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle
Motivational, Happiness, Business
Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Thomas Carlyle
Strength, Happiness, Power

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Thomas Carlyle
Motivational, Happiness, Work

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Thomas Carlyle
Happiness, Laughter, Joy

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Thomas Carlyle
Inspirational, Positive, Happiness
1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.4.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Thomas Carlyle
Happiness, Laughter, Brave Person

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle
Love, Cute, Happiness
Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.18

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Thomas Carlyle
Happiness, Greatness, Men
'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 2, ch. 9

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Thomas Carlyle
Happiness, Simple, Rights

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