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Time should not be allowed to pass without yielding fruits, in the form of something learnt worthy of being known, some good principle cultivated, or some good habit strengthened.
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Work is the law of our being--the living principle that carries men and nations onward.
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A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it, and what he feels in it.
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Life must needs be disgusting alike to the idle rich man as to the idle poor man, who has no work to do, or, having work, will not do it.