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• Give us, O give us, the man who is cheerful in his work!
  Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness....
• How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about i
  for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. -- Carlyle...
• Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historia...
• Endurance is patience concentrated. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia
• It were better to perish than to continue schoolmastering. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. -- Thomas Carlyle
• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. -- Thomas Carlyle
• Better to break your word than do worse in keeping it. -- Thomas Fulle