A Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish - Philosopher
December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

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.

Thomas Carlyle

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

Samuel Johnson

Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.

Richard Clarke Cabot

As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.

Marcel Proust

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

Oscar Wilde

The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.

Albert Einstein

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Thomas Carlyle

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Blaise Pascal

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Henry Ward Beecher

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

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.

Thomas Carlyle

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Benjamin Franklin

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.