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A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three read more
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
 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. 
 I am nothing and to nothing tend,
 On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,
  Man's noblest read more 
 I am nothing and to nothing tend,
 On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,
  Man's noblest works must have one common end,
   And nothing crown the tablet of his name. 
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
 No man is born into the world whose work
 Is not born with him: there is always work,
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 No man is born into the world whose work
 Is not born with him: there is always work,
  And tools to work withal, for those who will;
   And blessed are the horny hand of toil! 
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
 Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is 
eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.  
 Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is 
eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.