“ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ”
- Maxim Gorky- Copy
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“ To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
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“ When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ”
- Joseph Wood Krutch- Copy
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“ How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ I have had my labour for my travail. - Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow. ”
- Kiichi Miyazawa- Copy
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“ No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. ”
- Dr. Walter Smith- Copy
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“ The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ What keeps so many employers back is simple unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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“ Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse. ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
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“ The more one works, the more willing one is to work. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
- 336
“ Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. ”
- James Allen- Copy
- 600
“ If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. ”
- Mikhail Bakunin- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Measure not the workUntil the day's out and the labour done. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.4K
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