There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.
Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there's a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day.
Working gets in the way of living.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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