“The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.” NeedsMeanNightSimpleMorningDutyMembersTasksVariousCeaseEmployeeCategoriesNow And ThenSeniorDistributionObligedSmall PartsClerksDeputies Author:Jose Saramago
“A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.” SelfNightMorningSacrificeDutyReturnThousandLaborDearAffectionCrowdsWheelsEnduranceProcession Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Go to bed before 8 p.m. Thieves generally break in between 12 and 2 a.m., so if you spend the evening in useless talk and go to bed late, you are likely to lose your valuables and your reputation as well. Save the firing and the light that will be wasted by staying up late and get up at four in the morning. Have a cold bath and say your prayers, and after you have dressed, give your orders for the day to your wife and children and retainers and so be ready to go on duty before 6 [a.m.]” IfsGivingWellsChildrenLightOrderLosesPrayerBreakMorningFourWifeAdviceReadyDutyGoes OnColdBedLateReputationGet UpEveningUselessStayingThievesBathsOur PrayersFiringRetainers Author:Hojo Soun
“A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.” IfsStillsLightHappinessMorningDarknessSeaDutyWingsMiseryObligationPursueDeities Book:Works: with a Biographical Memoir Source: Works: with a Biographical Memoir
“As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.” LightMoralPrinciplesMorningDutyEssentialsShadowShiningStrikesMoral Principles Author:Felix Adler
“I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.” JoyOrderGivenMorningExpressionDutyActivityPerformingRejoiceGladnessWhatever Works Book:The Art of Meditation Source: The Art of Meditation