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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Nothing is impossible to industry.

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Many hands make light work.

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you.

I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and ill-thought-on of you; gone between and between, but small thanks for my labor.

Another lean unwashed artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

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 am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman.

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!

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

Do not waste bricks.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.