Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Work Quotes

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

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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

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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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If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.

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

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She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

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Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

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To be is to be related.

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A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

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

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

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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

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

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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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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

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

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