"Will it, and set to work briskly."
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"You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth."
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"Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you."
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"I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant."
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"I do not like work even when someone else is doing it."
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"To be is to be related."
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"The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'."
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"Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best."
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"Do thine own task, and be therewith content."
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"There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be."
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"If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun."
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"Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one."
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"In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work."
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"One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate."
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"The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good."
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"All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie."
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"If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it."
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"It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity."
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"Work first, and then rest."
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"Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?"
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