Good Work quotes
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"Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness."
"Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work."
"Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work."
"I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work."
"I know what happiness is, for I have done good work."
"The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result."
"Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too."
"Good workmen are seldom rich."
"That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do."
