Thomas Carlyle on Work
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βAll work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.β
βAnd yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.β
βIt is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.β
βGenuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.β
βWork is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind β honest work, which you intend getting done.β
βBlessed is the man who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Know thy work, and do it; and work at it like Hercules. One monster there is in the world, the idle man.β
βThe most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,βhonest work, which you intend getting done.β