Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Work Quotes, Writing Quotes

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

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

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

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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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

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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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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

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

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

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Practice non-action. Work without doing.

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Punctuality is the thief of time

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