Quote #13

This great maxim of Philosophy he had gathered by the teaching of nature alone: That man was created to work, not to speculate, or feel, or dream.

More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
  2. A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
  3. 'Genius' (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
  4. The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
  5. A healthy hatred of scoundrels.
  6. The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
  7. A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
  8. Literary men are...a perpetual priesthood.

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