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Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Labor

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.16, CUP Archive

All true work is sacred.

Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.203

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.90, CUP Archive