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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, o...more

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own ...more

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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose fa...more

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When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.