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The outlook was cheerless indeed, but much work had to be done and we could not yield to the desire to remain in the sleeping-bags.
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There are some men who will do more than their share of work and who will attempt more than they are physically able to accomplish.
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Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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The strong man who in the confidence of sturdy health courts the sternest activities of life and rejoices in the hardihood of constant labor may still have lurking near his vitals the unheeded disease that dooms him to sudden collapse.
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The tedium of that work is hard to conceive.
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Our life is frittered away by detail
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Fatigue yourself, but once, to utter exhaustion, and to the end of life you shall not recover the former vigour of your frame.
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The labour of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and thus makes the poor happy.
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Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?
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Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.
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Love the art which you have learned, humble though it be, and in it find your recreation.
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Others, who love the art that they have made their own, exhaust themselves with labouring at it unwashed and unfed.
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I had, and still have, determined perseverance, but I soon found that it was in vain to occupy my mind beyond a certain time.
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Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.
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It is doubtful whether a person could be a failure while engaged in work which he liked best.
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy.
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success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price, and it is yours.
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Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.
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Self-love is mainly to blame, making people fond of being first and aspiring in all matters, and insatiably desirous to engage in everything.
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All the toys that infatuate men, and which they play for
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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or the place.
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Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.
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One can only say 'God help us!' and plod on our weary way, cold and very miserable, though outwardly cheerful.
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It never seems to them that they have served enough; they have a fine impatience of their virtues.
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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life.