“They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.”
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“They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.”
“Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour done”
“The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul”
“Inspiration comes of working every day”
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself”
“In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it ”
“As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work”
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do”
“The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven”
“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work”
“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”
“When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy”
“He who did most, shall bear most; the strongest shall stand the most weak”
“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do”
“Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks”
“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it”
“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach”
“Happily in this community we all are bred and born to work; and this honorable mark, set on us all, should bind together the various portions of the community”