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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.