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  • As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Work Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Work Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Work Quotes , Fall Quotes
  • Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Work Quotes , Quality Quotes
  • 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.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Work Quotes , Sweat Quotes