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 Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and 
thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot read more 
 Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and 
thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, 
and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the 
starvation of his children--that torture is something that 
private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake. 
Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.
Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
 With hand on the spade and heart in the sky
 Dress the ground and till it;
  Turn read more 
 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. 
Better to wear out than to rust out.
Better to wear out than to rust out.
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.