Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Father Quotes, Work Quotes

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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

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I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

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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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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

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Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

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Work is love made visible.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Work Quotes , Men Quotes

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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In work, do what you enjoy.

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The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

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