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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Handle your tools without mittens.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

"Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."

In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth.

A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye Jacke! robys on.

When Adam dalfe and Eve spane So spire if thou may spede, Where was then the pride of man, That nowe merres his mede?

Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills The fields with Plenty crowned; Him with the woodman's axe that thrills The wilderness profound.

Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie.

Haste makes waste.

The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

Light is the task when many share the toil.

The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise. The work she plyed, but, studious of delay, Each following night reversed the toils of day.

When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run, Sat down, drank off his quart and said, "My work is done, I'll go to bed." "My work is done!" retorted Joan, "My work is done! Your constant tone, But hapless woman ne'er can say 'My work is done' till judgment day."

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

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.