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"Your servant’s servant is your servant, madam."

"He that is greatest among you shall be your servant."

"She’s the kitchen wench, and all grease."

"The servants—the most reliable judges of their masters because they judge not by their conversation or expressions of feeling but by their acts and way of life."

"Thither I must, although against my will, For servants must their masters’ minds fulfil."

"Bound servants, steal! Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, And pill by law. Maid, to thy master’s bed, Thy mistress is o’ th’ brothel."

"Les maîtres cependant sont des gens bien heureux, Que souvent nous ayons le sens commun pour eux."

"Every good servant does not all commands; No bond but to do just ones."

"A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done."

"All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair— The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing— And Winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing."

"When admirals extoll'd for standing still, Of doing nothing with a deal of skill."

"Work thou for pleasure—paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve— Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee."

"The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else—or wait till I get through." I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along: But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong. One day I needed the Lord—needed Him myself—needed Him right away, And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do, You get somebody else or wait till I get through.""

"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."

"Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong."

"Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done at leisure parfitly."

"The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done."

"Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself."

"Nowher so besy a man as he ther was, And yet he semed bisier than he was."

"It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe."

"They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains."

"Each natural agent works but to this end,— To render that it works on like itself."

"Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des plaisirs."

"American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen."

"Their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work."

"Each one’s work will become obvious. For the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work."

"Better to wear out than to rust out."

"Honest labour bears a lovely face."

"All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy."

"'Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush."

"When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?"

"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit."

"La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos."

"Qui orat et laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus."

"[A universal basic income] would be one of the greatest catalysts to entrepreneurship and creativity we have ever seen, and I've worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs over the years. We have to put more Americans in position to do work that they value intrinsically, instead of as a necessary means to survival."

"Jesus once said that the dead should let to bury the dead (Luke 9:60). This shows no disrespect for the dead. It shows an awareness that there are some functions in society that will be well taken care of without Christians investing their creativity in those functions. Someone else, in meeting such needs, can make a stable living. Burying the dead is still one of the businesses in which you can make a stable living. There are other such services that we can count on society handling by itself. Leadership in government and business are among these. Let us reserve our limited creativity for functions that will not be taken care of if we do not to it."

"Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle."

"Qui laborat, orat."

"Hâtez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage."

"The dog that trots about finds a bone."

"Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands."

"And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable."

"All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble."

"With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done."

"Earned with the sweat of my brows."

"Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras."

"Penelopæ telam retexens."

"Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Græcum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est præteritorum memoria."

"A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil."

"If we expand the notion of work, which is something that a universal basic income would help us do, it would begin to compensate parents and caregivers; it would begin to recognize different forms of work."