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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.
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an
opportunity to do it, is the read more
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an
opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do,
I said, "You get somebody read more
The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do,
I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I get through."
I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along:
But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong.
One day I needed the Lord--Needed Him myself--needed Him right
away,
And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say
Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do,
You get somebody else or wait till I get through."
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.
Better to wear out than to rust out.
Better to wear out than to rust out.
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.
Handle your tools without mittens.
Handle your tools without mittens.