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“Plough deep while sluggards sleep.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes Source: Poor Richard
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“Handle your tools without mittens.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes Source: Poor Richard (preface)
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“By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss
and work twelve hours a day.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes Source: Poor Richard (preface)
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“"Men work together," I told him from the heart,
"Whether they work together or apart."”
Robert Lee Frost Quotes Source: Tuft of Flowers
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“In every rank, or great or small,
'Tis industry supports us all.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly (l. 63)
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“Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have
while working.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly (l. 63)
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“Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare
it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done
one's best.
[Ger., So eine Arbeit wird eigentlich nie fertig; man muss sie
fur fertig erklaren, wenn man nach Zeit und Umstand das
Moglichste getan hat.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Italienische Reise
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“He that well his warke beginneth
The rather a good ende he winneth.”
John Gower ("The Moral Gower") Quotes Source: Confessio Amantis
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“A warke it ys as easie to be done
As tys to saye Jacke! robys on.”
James O. Halliwell Quotes Source: Archoeological Dictionary, quotation from an old play
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“When Adam dalfe and Eve spane
So spire if thou may spede,
Where was then the pride of man,
That nowe merres his mede?”
Richard Rolle de Hampole Quotes Source: Early English Text Society Reprints (no. 26, p. 79)
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“Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills
The fields with Plenty crowned;
Him with the woodman's axe that thrills
The wilderness profound.”
Benjamin Hathaway Quotes Source: Songs of the Toiler
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“Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie.
[Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“Haste makes waste.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. II)
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“The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his
price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of
his power.”
Thomas Hobbes Quotes Source: Leviathan (ch. X)
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“Light is the task when many share the toil.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. XII, l. 493), (Bryant's translation)
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“The fiction pleased; our generous train complies,
Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.
The work she plyed, but, studious of delay,
Each following night reversed the toils of day.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XXIV, l. 164), (Pope's translation)
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“When Darby saw the setting sun
He swung his scythe, and home he run,
Sat down, drank off his quart and said,
"My work is done, I'll go to bed."
"My work is done!" retorted Joan,
"My work is done! Your constant tone,
But hapless woman ne'er can say
'My work is done' till judgment day."”
St. John Honeywood Quotes Source: Darby and Joan
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“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
St. John Honeywood Quotes Source: Darby and Joan
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“Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you
employed.
[Lat., Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat
occupatum.]”
St. John Honeywood Quotes Source: Darby and Joan
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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 Quotes Source: Three Men in a Boat (ch. XV)
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“Tho' we earn our bread, Tom,
By the dirty pen,
What we can we will be,
Honest Englishmen.
Do the work that's nearest
Though it's dull at whiles,
Helping, when we meet them,
Lame dogs over stiles.”
Charles Kingsley Quotes Source: Letter, to Thomas Hughes inviting him and Tom Taylor to go fishing, see "Memoirs of Kingsley" by his
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“For men must work and women must weep,
And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep,
And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.”
Charles Kingsley Quotes Source: Three Fishers
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“The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire.
He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing His desire,
And he shall see old planets pass and alien stars arise,
And give the gale his reckless sail in shadow of new skies.
Strong lust of gear shall drive him out and hunger arm his hand,
To wring his food from a desert nude, his foothold from the sand.”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes Source: The Foreloper (Interloper), published in "Century Magazine", Apr., 1909, but first published in Lond
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“But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and
pen,
We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes Source: Imperial Rescript
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“And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall
blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate
star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They
Are!”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes Source: L'Envoi, in "Seven Seas"
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