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Work and Recreation
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# · Unrated · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero
Don't do whatever you like — like whatever you do.
# · Not So Good (32 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
# · Not So Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
The only way round is through.
# · Not So Good (20 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
God gives every bird his worm, but he doesn't throw it into the nest.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.
Unknown, (German proverb), in Work and Recreation
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Unknown, (The Talmud), in Work and Recreation
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Unknown, (Ethiopian proverb), in Work and Recreation
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 by Barbara Postman (updated 1998)
Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief.
Unknown, (attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal), in Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
# · Not So Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
# · Not So Good (16 ratings) · submitted 1997
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
# · Not So Good (26 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
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