Thomas Carlyle on Work
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Thomas Carlyle, catalogued under work, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #224481: "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."
Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #82284: "He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet."
6 Quotes by Thomas Carlyle on Work
"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."
"He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet."
":Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
"Every noble work is at first impossible."
"Captains of Industry."
"In all European countries, especially in England, one class of Captains and commanders of men, recognizable as the beginning of a new real and not imaginary "Aristocracy," has already in some measure developed itself: the Captains of Industry;—happily the class who above all, or at least first of all, are wanted in this time. In the doing of material work, we have already men among us that can command bodies of men. And surely, on the other hand, there is no lack of men needing to be commanded: the sad class of brother-men whom we had to describe as "Hodge's emancipated horses," reduced to roving famine,—this too has in all countries developed itself; and, in fatal geometrical progression, is ever more developing itself, with a rapidity which alarms every one. On this ground, if not on all manner of other grounds, it may be truly said, the "Organization of Labor" is the universal vital Problem of the world."