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“With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.”

Men Heart Littles Done Hands Turns House Work Alive Sky Dresses Seeds Golden Dry Brown Feds Spades

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.”

Trying Work Alive Bed Ambition Cups Kitchen

Author:Dolly Parton

“If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.”

Ifs Men Work Five Alive Fool Fifty

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that can match it. I feel safe, excited, at peace, erotic, centered. Nothing can touch me.”

World Feels Work Alive Love You Circumstances Safe Excited Erotic Touch Me

Author:Vivian Gornick

“I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.”

Men Done Work Alive

Book:Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns

Source: Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns

“J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills Ends Past Dies Father Work Alive Son Medicine Retiring Desks

Author:B. C. Forbes

“If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.”

Ifs Today Work Alive Vogue Botticelli

Author:Peter Ustinov

“Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive”

“It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.”

Inspirational Feels Motivational Purpose Work Alive Motivational Work

Author:Federico Fellini

“If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.”

People Ifs Want Should Years Humans Ends Left Work Human Beings Alive Hard Work Labor Cease Labour Divided Provision Subsistence

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

“I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.”

Thinking Stills Form Artist Difficult Work Cases Alive Parting Chariots

Author:Kit Williams