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Work, and therein have well-being.
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“Work, and therein have well-being.”

Thomas Carlyle

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Past and Present
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1843
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Carlyle links active work with well-being in a deliberately moral and religious account of labor as a way of ordering life and confronting disorder.

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Past and Present, Book III, Chapter XII, “Reward,” printed page 250 in Thomas Carlyle’s Collected Works, Library Edition, Vol. XIII (London: Chapman and Hall), Project Gutenberg #26159. “Work, and therein have well-being” opens Carlyle’s enduring “Gospel” of work inside explicitly Christian Victorian social criticism. This collection preserves that historical moral-religious setting and does not present the sentence as a modern health, wellness or employment guarantee.

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