Oscar Wilde Quotes, Work Quotes, Toil Quotes

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

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... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

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There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

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The only way round is through.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

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There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

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The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

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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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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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