| 127 Work Quotes
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“Free men freely work:
Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. VIII, l. 784)
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“And still be doing, never done.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 204)
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“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind
of work he is to do in this universe.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Address at Edinburgh
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“Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is
eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Past and Present (bk. II, ch. XVII)
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“All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Past and Present (bk. III, ch. IV)
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“With hand on the spade and heart in the sky
Dress the ground and till it;
Turn in the little seed, brown and dry,
Turn out the golden millet.
Work, and your house shall be duly fed:
Work, and rest shall be won;
I hold that a man had better be dead
Than alive when his work is done.”
Alice Cary Quotes Source: Work
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“The rather since every man is the son of his own works.
[Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (bk. I, ch. 4)
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“Earned with the sweat of my brows.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. 4)
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“Each natural agent works but to this end,--
To render that it works on like itself.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act III, sc. 1)
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“Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be,
That may both werken wel and hastily.
This wol be done at leisure parfitly.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 585), The Merchant's Tale
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“Nowher so besy a man as he ther was,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 321)
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“Let us take to our hearts a lesson--
No lesson could braver be--
From the ways of the tapestry weavers
On the other side of the sea.”
Anson G. Chester Quotes Source: Tapestry Weavers
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“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To
destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”
Anson G. Chester Quotes Source: Tapestry Weavers
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“Unraveling the web of Penelope.
[Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Acad. Quoest. (bk. IV, 29, 95)
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“All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
And Winter, slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: Work Without Hope (st. 1)
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“Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve
The thing thou lovest, though the body starve--
Who works for glory misses oft the goal;
Who works for money coins his very soul.
Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be
That these things shall be added unto thee.”
Kenyon Cox Quotes Source: Our Motto
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“Better to wear out than to rust out.”
Bishop Richard Cumberland (1) Quotes Source: to one who urged him not to wear himself with work
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“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an
opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
Bishop Richard Cumberland (1) Quotes Source: to one who urged him not to wear himself with work
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“The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do,
I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I get through."
I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along:
But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong.
One day I needed the Lord--Needed Him myself--needed Him right
away,
And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say
Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do,
You get somebody else or wait till I get through."”
Paul Laurence Dunbar Quotes Source: The Lord had a Job
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“All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.”
Paul Laurence Dunbar Quotes Source: The Lord had a Job
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“'Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry,
As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.”
Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer") Quotes Source: Corn Law Rhymes (no. 7)
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“Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Quatrains--Nature
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“My work is a game, a very serious game.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Quatrains--Nature
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“A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.”
Mrs. Eusden Quotes Source: Poem
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“Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.”
J.P. Claris de Florian Quotes Source: Le Vacher et le Garde-chasse
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