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

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

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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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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

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What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

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

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Work hard at work worth doing.

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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

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

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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

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In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

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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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Do your work, but do your thing.

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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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