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Page 233 - All true Work is sacred ; in all true Work, were it but true hand-labor, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the Earth, has its summit in Heaven. Sweat of the brow ; and up from that to sweat of the brain, sweat of the heart ; which includes...
Page 39 - To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath,' — that doctrines like these should be applied in the State, and especially in a monarchically, paternally governed State.
Page 228 - Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mud-swamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows; — draining off the sour festering water, gradually from the root of the remotest grass-blade; making, instead of pestilential swamp, a green fruitful meadow with its clear-flowing stream.
Page 227 - ... against his task, and all these are stilled, all these shrink murmuring far off into their caves. The man is now a man. The blessed glow of Labour in him, is it not as purifying fire, wherein all poison is burnt up, and of sour smoke itself there is made bright blessed flame ! Destiny, on the whole, has no other way of cultivating us.
Page 173 - Behold I am sinking, bare of help: ye must help me ! I am your sister, bone of your bone ; one God made us ; ye must help me !" They answer, " No ; impossible : thou art no sister of ours.
Page 313 - The Leaders of Industry, if Industry is ever to be led, are virtually the Captains of the World ; if there be no nobleness in them, there will never be an Aristocracy more.
Page 233 - Agony of bloody sweat,' which all men have called divine ! O brother, if this is not 'worship,' then I say, the more pity for worship ; for this is the noblest thing yet discovered under God's sky. Who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil? Complain not. Look up, my wearied brother: see thy fellow Workmen there, in God's Eternity ; surviving there, they alone surviving : sacred Band of the Immortals, celestial Bodyguard of the Empire of Mankind.
Page 157 - Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless. Here eyes do regard you, In Eternity's stillness; Here is all fulness, Ye brave, to reward you; Work, and despair not.
Page 235 - Nay, at bottom, dost thou need any reward? Was it thy aim and life-purpose to be filled with good things for thy heroism; to have a life of pomp and ease, and be what men call "happy," in this world, or in any other world? I answer for thee deliberately, No. The whole spiritual secret of the new epoch lies in this, that thou canst answer for thyself, with thy whole clearness of head and heart, deliberately, No! My brother, the brave man has to give his Life away. Give it, I advise thee; — thou...
Page 315 - Wanting : — in such days, after a generation or two, I say, it does become, even to the low and simple, very palpably impossible ! No Working World, any more than a Fighting World, can be led on without a noble Chivalry of Work, and laws and fixed rules which follow out of that, — far nobler than any Chivalry of Fighting was.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Past and Present The Modern students library: Philosophy series The modern students library |
| Author | Thomas Carlyle |
| Editor | Edwin Mims |
| Contributor | Edwin Mims |
| Publisher | C. Scribner's sons, 1918 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 5, 2008 |
| Length | 363 pages |
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