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Work educates the body, as study educates the mind; and that is the best state of society in which there is some work for every man's leisure, and some leisure for every man's work.
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Work in moderation is healthy, as well as agreeable to the human constitution.
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A wise man is never so busy as in the solitary contemplation of God and the works of Nature.
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Oh! the delights of rest when a man comes to be weary, and of meat when he is heartily hungry.
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It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.
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Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.
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Unclamp, in a word, your intellectual and practical machinery, and let it run free; and the service it will do you will be twice as good.
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Take no thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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Throw away, in the first place, all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well.
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His capacity for work was prodigious, and when his own work happened to take less than his full time he characteristically found activity in serving a scientist or exercising an animal.
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In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect.
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At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.
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Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
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There is an indescribable something about work with the hands that tends to develop a student's mind.
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A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it.
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a man who is always living in the midst of these studies and labours does not perceive when old age creeps upon him
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All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse; not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.
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Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.
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Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.
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Success is the child of two very plain parents--punctuality and accuracy.
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This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best
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Labour is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing: only the idler feels it to be a curse.
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Industry enables men to earn their living; it should also enable them to learn to live.