Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Work Quotes

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

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I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.

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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

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Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

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Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

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The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

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Labor is God's education.

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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

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