Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Ive got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Ive got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. – Thomas Carlyle

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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. – Thomas Carlyle

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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle

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