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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."
Explore more quotes by Frederick Douglass

"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."

"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."

"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety."

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."

"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."
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