"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
"Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun."
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Source: Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”
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