The Sacredness Of Work, Thomas Carlyle

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by Dale Grothman. Thus, Sacredness of Work by Thomas Carlyle,
All true work is sacred. In all true hand labor,

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there is something of divineness labor. Why does the earth
has its summit in heaven? Sweat of the brow? And
up from that to sweat of the brain, sweat of
the heart, which includes all Kepler's calculations, Newton's meditations, all sciences,

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all spoken epics, all acted heroism, martyrdoms, up to that
agony of bloody sweat which all men have called divine.
Oh brother, if this is not a worship, then I
say the more pity for worship, for this is the
noblest thing yet discovered under God's sky. Who art thou

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that complainest of thy life of toil? Complain not look
up my wearied brother, see thy fellow workmen there in
God's eternity, surviving there they alone, surviving, sacred band of
the immortals, celestial bodyguard of the Empire of the mind.

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Even in the weak human memory they survived so long
as saints, as heroes, as gods, they alone, surviving, peopling
the immeasurable solitudes of time to thee Heaven, those is
not unkind. Heaven is kind, as a noble mother, as

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that spartan mother, saying, while she gave her son his shield,
with it, my son, or upon it, thou too shalt
return home in honor, to thy far distant home. Doubt
it not if in the battle thou keep thy shield.
The End of the Sacredness of Work by Thomas Carlyle