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

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

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

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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 you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

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Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

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The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

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I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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