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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.
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The mere drudgery undergone by some men in carrying on their undertakings has been something extraordinary, but the drudgery they regarded as the price of success.
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The road to success may be steep to climb, and it puts to the proof the energies of him who would reach the summit.
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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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Business that is ready and practicable goes off with ease; but when it is too heavy for the bearer, they fall both together.
108
Oh! the delights of rest when a man comes to be weary, and of meat when he is heartily hungry.
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Genius is 1 per cent. inspiration and 99 per cent. perspiration.
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Life seems terribly foreshortened as they look back and the mountain they set themselves to climb in youth turns out to be a mere spur of immeasurably higher ranges when, by failing breath, they reach the top.
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I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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Struggle, work, fight as I would, I seemed to get nowhere and accomplish nothing.
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The Day of Miracles was past, and a long, gray road of dogged work lay ahead.
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Why may I not rest me from this restlessness and sleep from this wide waking?
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Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.
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If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell.
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When he undertakes to play a part on the stage, and to persuade the world to think more about him than they do about themselves, he is got into a track where he will find nothing but briars and thorns, vexation and disappointment.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.
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The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.
120
The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.
121
We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.
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We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.
123
The American over-tension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression are primarily social, and only secondarily physiological, phenomena.
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The soul has wants which must be satisfied; and whatever pains be taken to divert it from itself, it soon grows weary, restless, and disquieted amidst the enjoyments of sense.
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There were times when his optimism appeared forced and formal though I believe it was not really so: there were times when I have almost hated him for his infernal cheerfulness.