Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Work Quotes, Play Quotes

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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

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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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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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The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

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I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

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To be is to be related.

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Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

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Nothing worth having comes easy.

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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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I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

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