"Industry cannot flourish if labor languish."
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"My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work."
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"The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous."
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"In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour."
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"Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing."
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"If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence."
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"The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all."
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"The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved."
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"If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people."
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"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
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"Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get."
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"Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease."
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"I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them."
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"Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another."
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"When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write."
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"Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all."
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"The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost."
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"Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely."
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"A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees."
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"Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him."
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