"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
-Thomas Carlyle
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"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.“
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"Oh, give us the man who sings at his work."
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"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
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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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"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."
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"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
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