Thomas Carlyle

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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Thomas Carlyle

happiness

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Thomas Carlyle

happiness

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

Thomas Carlyle

health

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

history

History, a distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

history

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Thomas Carlyle

history

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Thomas Carlyle

hope

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

Thomas Carlyle

hope

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Thomas Carlyle

hope

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Thomas Carlyle

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