Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Harmony

Quotes about: Harmony

• Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Healthy, Virtue

• Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Stars, Work

• 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

  Real, Work, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism. New Ed., Complete in One Volume”, p.197

• Variety is the condition of harmony.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Harmony, Variety, Conditions

• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Blessed, Men

  "Past and Present". Book by Thomas Carlyle, April 1843.

• Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Heart, Order

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.50

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