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There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Work Quotes , Bricks Quotes

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

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Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Work Quotes , Play Quotes

God always strives together with those who strive.

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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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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Real Quotes , Work Quotes

Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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None but those who work are entitled to eat.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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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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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Life Quotes , Work Quotes

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

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