WORDS-WORK. Great writers and orators are commonly economists in the E. P. Whipple: American Literature. Daniel WORK - see Appreciation, Knowledge, Labor, Worry. It is not joy nor repose which is the aim of life. It is work, or there is no aim at all. 5952 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.) Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work? 5953 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.) Genuine work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself. 5954 Carlyle: Past and Present. Bk. ii. Ch. 17. Without labor there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. 5955 Carlyle Essays. Characteristics. (Edinburgh Work is alone noble. 5956 Carlyle: Past and Present. Bk. iii. Ch. 4. Work is for the living. Carlyle: Thomas Carlyle, First Forty Years, by Froude. Vol. ii. Ch. 5. Journal, June 22, 1830. Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind, honest work, which you intend getting done. 5958 Carlyle Miscellanies. Inaugural Address. Better to wear out than to rust out. 5959 Bishop Cumberland: Sermon on the Duty of Contending for the Truth, by Bishop Horne. Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. do. 5960 Hamerton: Human Intercourse. Essay xxvi. Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to 5961 A man who defers working because he wants tranquillity of mind will have lost the habit when tranquillity comes. Work under all circumstances, any circumstances. 5962 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk A new and more glorious gift of power compensates for each worthy expenditure, so that it is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny, and leave him nearest God. 5963 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. III. Work and Play. Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone. 5964 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. No work that God sets a man to do-no work to which God has especially adapted a man's powers -can properly be called either menial or mean. 5965 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. I. Self-Help. Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. 5966 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. III. Work and Play. Work is the means of living, but it is not living. 5967 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such. 5968 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. III. Work and Play. Work, according to my feeling, is as necessary as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which a reasonable man would call labor imagine themselves to be doing something, and there is no one who would willingly be thought quite an idler in the world. 5969 Wilhelm von Humboldt: Letters to a Female It is far better to give work which is above the men than to educate the men to be above their work. 5970 Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Architecture. We are not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously; other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily; neither is to be done by halves or shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. 5971 Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle; and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hardworking, and intent men, their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others. Samuel Smiles: Self-Help. Ch. 10. 5972 No man has a right to be idle, if he can get work to do, even if he be as rich as Croesus. 5973 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. XV. Indolence and Industry. We work and that is godlike. 5974 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. III. Patience. Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. 5975 Tolstoi My Religion. Ch. 10. WORLD, The. Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time. 5976 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. III. Pursuits. The world is the same everywhere. 5978 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. Manhood. The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it. 5979 Carlyle: Thomas Carlyle, First Forty Years, by The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong. 5980 George William Curtis: The Potiphar Papers. VII. The Rev. Henry Dove to Mrs. Potiphar. Wise men sometimes avoid the world, that they may not be surfeited with it. 5981 La Bruyere: Characters. Of Society and Conversation. (Rowe, Translator.) The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. 5982 Horace Walpole: Letter, 1770. To Sir Horace Mann. WORRY. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy: you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. 5983 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts; see Poetry. It is a great thing to stand facing manward, and preach to men the everlasting gospel; it is a greater thing to face Godward, and with all humility and all hope to voice the petitions and the aspirations of those men and women who seek the divine fellowship and the heavenly rest. 5984 Joseph Anderson: MS. Worship. Sermon, Feb. 10, 1889. Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon. 5985 Carlyle Essays. Goethe's Works. (Foreign 'Tis certain that worship stands in some commanding relation to the health of man, and to his highest powers, so as to be, in some manner, the source of intellect. 5986 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Worship. What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship! 5987 Emerson: Miscellanies. Address, Cambridge, A little bread and wine in a dungeon sufficed for the liturgy of the martyrs. ... 5988 Hamerton: Modern Frenchmen. Henri Perreyve. Symbols will pass away; . . . temples of stones will pass away; .. but that which will endure forever is worship in spirit and in truth, perfect charity, and the rest of souls in Jesus. In the whole world there is neither temple nor tabernacle so dear to him as the soul of the just man. 5989 Hamerton: Modern Frenchmen. Henri Perreyve. WRONG. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. 5989a Johnson: The Rambler. No. 79. YOUTH. YOUTH Y. see Hope, Prudence, Resemblance, Years. A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second; for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in ages; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. 5990 Bacon Essays. Of Youth and Age. Youth is everywhere in place. Emerson: Society and Solitude. Old Age. John Hazlitt: Winterslow, by William Hazlitt. There is a feeling of amends for everything. Immortals. 5993 Eternity in youth which makes us Pt. i. Hazlitt: Table Talk. Second Series. Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. 5994 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 271. Youth comes but once in a lifetime. 5995 Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. ii. Ch. 10. If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. 5996 Lowell: Democracy and Other Addresses. Address. Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 8, 1886. Harvard Anniversary. To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life. 5997 Lowell: My Study Windows. Emerson the 'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. 5998 Edward Moore: The Gamester. Act iii. Sc. 4. We have some salt of our youth in us. Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor. |
