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Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.
And meanwhiletime goes about its immemorial workof making everyone look and feel like shit.
Arbeit macht frei. Work liberates.
Faire l'amour avec une femme qui ne vous pla|"t pas, c'est aussi triste que de travailler. To make love with a woman whom you do not like is as sad as going to work.
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.
You have now done your work and may go play, unless you will fall out amongst yourselves.
If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him; or his ends, and so persuade him; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him, or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.
Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de¤ sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve¤ rifie¤ , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.
And even now, at twenty-five, He has to to keep alive! Yes! All day long from10 till 4! For half the year or even more; With but an hour or two to spend At luncheon with a city friend.
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
A test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
He wasnotfitfor marriage, only for work. A major writer, he conceded, required major torment.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh dayand sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
When Iconsider thyheavens,theworkofthy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.Thou madest himtohave dominionover the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.
Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
Whatsoever thy hand findethto do; do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.
If any would not work, neither should he eat.
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Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2005 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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