"When work is a pleasure, life is a……" — Maxim Gorky
"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."
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51 Quotes by Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky has 51 quotes on this site.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you…
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim…
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the…
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Every new time will give its law.
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If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is…
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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but…
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event...
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More Duty Quotes
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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