Abraham Lincoln Quotes, War Quotes, Work Quotes

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

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Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.

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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

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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None but those who work are entitled to eat.

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

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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

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"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

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Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Work Quotes , Learning Quotes

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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Work, work, work, is the main thing.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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The only way round is through.

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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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