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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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

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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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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

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

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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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What luck for rulers that men do not think.

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Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

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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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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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

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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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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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