"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
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"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
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