114 Quotes by Thomas Carlyle about Men


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    The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

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    I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

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    Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... 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.

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