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The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done. - Berton Braley, No Chance Beloved, let us love so well, Our work shall still be better for our love, And still our love be sweeter for our work, And both, commended, for the sake of each, By all true workers and true lovers born. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning God did anoint thee with His odorous oil, to wrestle not to reign. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning By the way, The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight, Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, To put on when you're weary--or a stool To tumble over and vex you . . . curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion where you lean And sleep, and dream of something we are not, But would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid The worth of our work, perhaps. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 465) Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 164) Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labour done. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. V, l. 78) Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. VIII, l. 784) In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.(Browning, E.B.} The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend. - Robert Burns And still be doing, never done. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 204) Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. - Al Capp Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. - George Carlin The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. - George Carlin All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. - Thomas Carlyle The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. - Thomas Carlyle Without labor there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. - Thomas Carlyle Work is alone noble. - Thomas Carlyle It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. - Thomas Carlyle, Address at Edinburgh Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself. - Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (bk. II, ch. XVII) All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. - Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (bk. III, ch. IV) With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done. - Alice Cary, Work Keep thyself unspotted from the world. - Richard Cecil The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.] - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (bk. I, ch. 4) Earned with the sweat of my brows. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. 4) Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself. - George Chapman, Bussy d'Ambois (act III, sc. 1) Displaying page 2 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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