Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Mankind
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Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.
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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The 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,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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