“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
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“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes”
“Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance”
“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be”
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides ”
“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”
“Make crime pay. Become a lawyer”
“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or senator, and remain fit for anything else”
“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”
“The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.”
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself”
“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create”
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
“Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature”
“The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead”
“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind”
“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth”
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it”
“The first option is almost always covered. That's why the play is designed to create multiple opportunities”
“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do”