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These possibilities of mental development are still further increased when the man makes his own records. This leads to closer attention, to more interest in the work, and to a realization of the man as to what the record really means, and what value it represents.
Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.
The observed worker should be made to realize the purpose and importance of the measurement. The observing should always be done with his full knowledge and hearty coöperation.
If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind; our best hours escape us, the worst are to come.
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet every body fools us out of it that has a mind to it.
Business that is ready and practicable goes off with ease; but when it is too heavy for the bearer, they fall both together.
Oh! the delights of rest when a man comes to be weary, and of meat when he is heartily hungry.
A wise man is never so busy as in the solitary contemplation of God and the works of Nature.
In rest you go beyond these limits, and beyond what is enough; but in action you do not fill the measure, and remain well within your powers.
Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?
Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.
For death also is one piece of the business of life, and, here as elsewhere, it is enough to do well what comes to our hand.
No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.
Love the art which you have learned, humble though it be, and in it find your recreation.
Others, who love the art that they have made their own, exhaust themselves with labouring at it unwashed and unfed.
the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress
Is pleasure, then, the object of your being, and not action, and the exercise of your powers?
a man who is always living in the midst of these studies and labours does not perceive when old age creeps upon him
You must make up your mind to steady and earnest work. You must be content to get on slowly if you only get on thoroughly.
With tireless energy and eager zeal, colored women have, since their emancipation, been continuously prosecuting the work of educating and elevating their race, as though upon themselves alone devolved the accomplishment of this great task.
Shirking responsibility has never been a fault with which colored women might be truthfully charged.
I was thrown out of work, and now that I had got into the habit of writing I did not know what to make of my spare time.
I had, and still have, determined perseverance, but I soon found that it was in vain to occupy my mind beyond a certain time.
Every corps is a chain of despots, who, submitting and tyrannizing without exercising their reason, become dead weights of vice and folly on the community.
Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.