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Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Work

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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Work, Misery, Cures

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Inspirational, Work, Men

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.378, Cosimo, Inc.

A man perfects himself by working.

Work, Men

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.189, 北戴河出版

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

Motivational, Happiness, Work

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Work, Men, Sight

1839 Chartism, ch.4.

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

Work, Hands, Heaven

Thomas Carlyle (1885*). “Complete Works: Frederick the Great, v. 7. Past and present. The portraits of John Knox. Miscellanies”

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Work, Men, Cities

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.189, 北戴河出版

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Work, Men, Despair

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.168

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Kings, Work, Birth

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.41, Lulu.com

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Work, Grows, Spread

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.118

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Inspirational, Motivational, Work

Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.53, Lulu.com

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

Life, Work, Soldier

Thomas Carlyle (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Work, Law, Faculty

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

Time, Stars, Work

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Real, Work, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism. New Ed., Complete in One Volume”, p.197

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

Life, Success, Work

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.123, Univ of California Press

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Work, Religion

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.115

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

Work, Men, Majesty

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

Work, World, Almighty

Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.81

A man's perfection is his work.

Work, Men, Perfection

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

Work, Men

"Past and Present".

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows

Running, Work, Blessed

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

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