T. S. Eliot Quotes, Work Quotes, Book 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 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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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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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

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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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You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.

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Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

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Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

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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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Labor is God's education.

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Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

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But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."

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

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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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CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

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

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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