It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of… — Thomas Carlyle

It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Chartism · 1840
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Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.
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Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 5.

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