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" FOR 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 is there perpetual despair. "
Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts - Page 24
1854
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Past and Present

Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1843 - 198 pages
...perhaps lie other ten times nobler conquests ' CHAPTER XI. LABOUR. FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted,...perpetual despair. Work, never so Mammonish, mean, /.v in communication with Nature ; the real desire to get Work done will itself lead one more and more...
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Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 10

1843 - 830 pages
...Were he never so benighted, forgetful r'f his high calling, there is always hope in a man that vtnally and earnestly works : in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair. Work, never so Mammonish, raean, ù in communication with Nature ; the real de"ire to get Work done will itself lead one more...
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...XXIX. THE WEAVER'S SONG. " THEHE is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there...works ; in idleness alone is there perpetual despair. Doubt, desire, sorrow, remorse, indignation, despair itself— all these, like hell-dogs, lie beleaguering...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D ..., Volume 11

David Thomas - 674 pages
...perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never go benighted, forgetful of his nigh calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works ; in idleness alone is their perpetual despair. Work, never so Mammonish, mean, is in communication with nature ; the real...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 5

Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...Thy tones, SY. REGIS BELL ! THERE is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there...works ; in idleness alone is there perpetual despair. Doubt, desire, sorrow, remorse, indignation, despair itself, all these, like hell dogs, lie beleaguering...
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Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion, Volume 2

Anna Cabot Lowell - Conduct of life - 1856 - 330 pages
...be generous, a life devoted to use or to beauty ? vni. WORK. WORK. THERE is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness in Work. Were he never so benighted,...that actually and earnestly works ; in Idleness alone there is perpetual despair. Work, never so Mammonish, mean, is in communication with Nature ; the real...
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The Ohio Journal of Education, Volume 6

Education - 1857 - 396 pages
...— There is no happiness in idleness. Carlyle truthfully says: — "There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness in work. Were he never so benighted,...that actually and earnestly works ; in idleness alone there is perpetual despair." — Active organization of County Teachers' Associations throughout the...
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Principles of Elocution

Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...2.— WORK. THEKE is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he ever so benighted, or forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope...works ; in idleness alone is there perpetual despair. Consider how, even in the meanest sort of labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into real harmony....
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The pupil's manual of choice reading, arranged by T.B. Smith

Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...CARLYLE. There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he ever so benighted, or forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope...works; in idleness alone is there perpetual despair. Consider how, even in the meanest sorts of labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into real harmony....
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Sunbeams for all seasons; counsels, cautions, and precepts &c

Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...noise than strength. — There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there...works ; in idleness alone is there perpetual despair. — Cwrlyle. — Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when restless sloth Finds the down pillow hard....
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