Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Work Quotes, Years Quotes

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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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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Work Quotes , Pride Quotes

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Work Quotes

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

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Work Quotes , Poetry Quotes

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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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Work Quotes , Eye Quotes

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

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

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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Work Quotes , Pride Quotes

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

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Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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The only way round is through.

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Work is love made visible.

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

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What luck for rulers that men do not think.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Work Quotes , School Quotes

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Work Quotes , Where You Are Quotes

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

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Work Quotes