Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Idleness

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  • In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

  • Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

    Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.16, CUP Archive
  • Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

    Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.38
  • There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

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    Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.168
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