T. S. Eliot Quotes, Work Quotes, Book Quotes

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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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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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

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Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

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Labor is God's education.

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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

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CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

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Labor is the true standard of value.

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... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

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

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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