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I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is
not satisfied with seeing, nor the read more
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is
not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled hearing.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil
days come not, nor the years read more
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil
days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I
have no pleasure in them;
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not
darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the
strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because
they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Let us take to our hearts a lesson--
No lesson could braver be--
From the ways of read more
Let us take to our hearts a lesson--
No lesson could braver be--
From the ways of the tapestry weavers
On the other side of the sea.
Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.
Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.
For men must work and women must weep,
And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep,
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For men must work and women must weep,
And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep,
And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.