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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
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All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
And Winter, slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Free men freely work:
Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
Free men freely work:
Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have
while working.
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have
while working.
How many a rustic Milton has passed by,
Stifling the speechless longings of his heart,
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How many a rustic Milton has passed by,
Stifling the speechless longings of his heart,
In unremitting drudgery and care!
How many a vulgar Cato has compelled
His energies, no longer tameless then,
To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!
'Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry,
As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.
'Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry,
As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
