Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Work Quotes, Men Quotes

If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

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Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

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Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

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Labor is the true standard of value.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

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

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None but those who work are entitled to eat.

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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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A man is known by the company he organizes.

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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.

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She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

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

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We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder.

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And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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