“ Nature owns no man who is not a Martyr withal. Is there a man who pretends to live luxuriously housed up ”
Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843). copy citation
| Author | Thomas Carlyle |
|---|---|
| Source | Past and Present |
| Topic | pretending house |
| Date | 1843 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13534/pg13534-images.html |
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“May the merciful Heavens avert the omen; may we be wiser, that so we be less wretched.
A High Class without duties to do is like a tree planted on precipices; from the roots of which all the earth has been crumbling. Nature owns no man who is not a Martyr withal. Is there a man who pretends to live luxuriously housed up; screened from all work, from want, danger, hardship, the victory over which is what we name work;—he himself to sit serene, amid down- bolsters and appliances, and have all his work and battling done by other men?”
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