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Work Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when…
- Faults and defects every work of man must have.
- Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
- It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
- When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which…
- The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
- I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty…
- The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
- The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak…
- There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work…
- To make dictionaries is dull work.
- No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
- You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than…
- Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon