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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
Robert Frost
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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
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A man grows most tired while standing still.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
Joseph Conrad
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Emily Brontë
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
W. H. Auden
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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.
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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
Paul Valéry
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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
Joseph Brodsky
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
Leonard Cohen
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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn
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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
Publilius Syrus
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Blessed is that man who has found his work.
Elbert Hubbard
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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
Cato the Elder
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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius
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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugène Delacroix
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.
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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.
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Every man is the son of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
James Russell Lowell
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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
Peter Drucker
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
Elbert Hubbard
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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
J. Paul Getty
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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
Don Marquis
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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?
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How do I work? I grope.
Albert Einstein
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis
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I do not like work even when someone else does it.
Mark Twain
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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.
Joseph Conrad
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K. Jerome
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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.
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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas Edison
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas Edison
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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol
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I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience
Steve Ballmer
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If food were free, why work?
Doug Horton
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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln
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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash
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If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
Malcolm Forbes
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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.
Karl Marx
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.
W. H. Auden
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
Henry Ward Beecher
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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.
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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
Aldous Huxley
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Inspiration comes of working every day.
Charles Baudelaire
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Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Mark Twain
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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo
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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
Samuel Johnson
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Labor diligently to increase your property.
Horace
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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.
Mary McCarthy
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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank
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Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
Mark Twain
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
George Washington
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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous Huxley
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard Baruch
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Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Men have become the tools of their trade.
Henry David Thoreau
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
Rudyard Kipling
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Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
Henry David Thoreau
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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.
Eric Butterworth
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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
Abraham Lincoln
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller
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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
Josh Billings
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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Eppie Friedman
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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
George Bernard Shaw
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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
William Faulkner
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
Thomas Carlyle
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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Plaster thick, some will stick.
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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!
Luis Buñuel
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