Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Work Quotes

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

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

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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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Work hard at work worth doing.

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A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

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The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

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Practice non-action. Work without doing.

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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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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

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Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

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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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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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