Thomas Carlyle
Scottish writer and historicus
Lived from: 1795 - 1881
Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Born: 4 december 1795 Died: 5 february 1881
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Without tools is the man nothing, with tools he is all.
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Wonder is the basis of worship.
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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.
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Work alone is noble.
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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