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If we have done our best to do, and to be, we can rest in peace.

Lastly, work secures the rich reward of rest, we must rest to be able to work well, and work to be able to enjoy rest.

Nor can any work, however persevering, or any success, however great, exhaust the prizes of life.

We all admit, though we often forget, the marvellous power of perseverance, and yet all Nature, down to Bruce's spider, is continually impressing this lesson on us.

Work indeed, and hard work, if only it is in moderation, is in itself a rich source of happiness.

Time indeed, is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life.

Time spent in innocent and rational enjoyments, in healthy games, in social and family intercourse, is well and wisely spent.

Our forces begin to fail us; let us call them in and concentrate them in and for ourselves.

Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success.

Hurry never realizes that slow, careful foundation work is the quickest in the end.

In the race for wealth men often sacrifice time, energy, health, home, happiness and honor,--everything that money cannot buy, the very things that money can never bring back.

Let us ever turn our face toward the future with confidence and trust, with the calmness of a life in harmony with itself, true to its ideals, and slowly and constantly progressing toward their realization.

Nature never hurries. Every phase of her working shows plan, calmness, reliability, and the absence of hurry.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who is braced to effort neither in the office nor out of it

In old age it is indeed a consolation to think that the work of life is over and done with.

There is a direct pleasure in seeing work grow under one's hands day by day, until at last it is finished.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen War

Expect no healthy conclusions from me this month, reader; I can offer you only sick men's dreams.

Besides my daylight servitude, I served over again all night in my sleep, and would awake with terrors of imaginary false entries, errors in my accounts, and the like.

Independently of the rigours of attendance, I have ever been haunted with a sense (perhaps a mere caprice) of incapacity for business.

It is Lucretian pleasure to behold the poor drudges, whom I have left behind in the world, carking and caring; like horses in a mill, drudging on in the same eternal round--and what is it all for?

The phantom of the next day, with the dreary five to follow, sate as a load upon my poor Sabbath recreations.