Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Work Quotes, Government Quotes

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

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For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

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