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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And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed--they know the angels
are on their side:
They know in them is the Grace confessed, and for them are the
Mercies multiplied;
They sit at the Feet, they hear the Word, they see how truly the
Promise runs;
They have cast their burden upon the Lord, and--the Lord He lays
it on Martha's sons!
Rudyard Kipling
Quotes , Source: The Sons of Mary
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I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes
first. . . . No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way
a cow grazes.
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz
Quotes , Source: diary entry, April 1910
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Who first invented work, and bound the free
And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .
To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . .
Sabbathless Satan!
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
Quotes , Source: Work
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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is
that which delays them.
David Lloyd George
Quotes , Source: at the Conference of Paris
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Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and
thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it,
and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the
starvation of his children--that torture is something that
private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.
David Lloyd George
Quotes , Source: in a speech
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No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him: there is always work,
And tools to work withal, for those who will;
And blessed are the horny hand of toil!
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: A Glance Behind the Curtain (l. 202)
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells?
To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men.
Marcus Valerius Martial
Quotes , Source: Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 49)
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 618)
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The work under our labour grows
Luxurious by restraint.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 208)
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I am nothing and to nothing tend,
On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,
Man's noblest works must have one common end,
And nothing crown the tablet of his name.
Thomas Moore
Quotes , Source: Ode upon Nothing, appeared in "Saturday Magazine" about 1836, but not in collected works
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Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession
until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double
allowance.
Thomas Moore
Quotes , Source: Ode upon Nothing, appeared in "Saturday Magazine" about 1836, but not in collected works
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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the
incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and
in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work
at this age.
William Osler
Quotes , Source: in an address at John Hopkins University
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Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting
solidity or exactness of beauty.
Plutarch
Quotes , Source: Life of Pericles
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Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Sir Walter Scott
Quotes , Source: Marmion (canto I, st. 28)
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What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you
With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Coriolanus (Menenius at I, i)
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I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and
ill-thought-on of you; gone between and between, but small thanks
for my labor.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Pandarus at I, i)
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Another lean unwashed artificer
Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life and Death of King John (Hubert at IV, ii)
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