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"We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

"Love by the sweat of thy brow.Not through whispered words of hollow sound or lofty dreams ne'er substance bound that more than oft do run aground. Nay, love with mighty, blistered hands that turn the soil and carve the land. A bearer of toil and golden band. Be strong! A founder of the feast! Protective knight who slays the beast! For promises and vows aloud are naught but wispy veneer shroud like cobwebs, frail, the airy words and wooing fail. So work, my darling. Toil as proof. Thy loyal heart be drained of youth and yet beat on, incessant sound. Both feet take root within the ground, and service be thy kingly crown.Love by the sweat of thy brow."

"Your life content reduces with employment."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
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"Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action."

"If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection."

"I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class."

"The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?"

"New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions."

"If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back."

"We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not."
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