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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
The end of labor is to gain leisure
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.
Responsibilities. To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
The world is full of willing people: some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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