Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve
The thing thou lovest, though the body starve--
Who read more

Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve
The thing thou lovest, though the body starve--
Who works for glory misses oft the goal;
Who works for money coins his very soul.
Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be
That these things shall be added unto thee.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Let no one till his death
Be called unhappy. Measure not the work
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Let no one till his death
Be called unhappy. Measure not the work
Until the day's out and the labour done.

Tools were made and born with hands,
Every farmer understands.

Tools were made and born with hands,
Every farmer understands.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Nothing is impossible to industry.

Nothing is impossible to industry.

A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you read more

A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you can have no conception.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Too long, that some may rest,
Tired millions toil unblest.

Too long, that some may rest,
Tired millions toil unblest.