Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Henry D…

Thomas Carlyle
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1900). The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essays
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The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (2 … ▶
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb … ▶
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud electricity, and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes i … ▶
I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1848). Past and Present: Chartism. New Ed., … ▶

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1900). The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essays

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