Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Father Quotes, Work Quotes

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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What luck for rulers that men do not think.

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

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Nothing worth having comes easy.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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

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A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

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The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

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

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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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Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

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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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REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

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