"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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"Oh, give us the man who sings at his work."
-Thomas Carlyle
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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."
-Thomas Carlyle
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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."
-Thomas Carlyle
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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."
-Thomas Carlyle
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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."
-Thomas Carlyle
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"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
-H. Rap Brown
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"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity."
-Mark Udall
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"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
-Eric Sevareid
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
-Richard Dreyfuss
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
-George Crook
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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