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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

“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time when I had not yet grasped the significance of the fact that in my house English was a second language, or that I wore dresses while my brother wore pants, I knew--and I knew it was important to know--that Papa worked hard all day long.”

Knows Long Important Hard Facts Girl House Language Work Class Brother Members Dresses My Brother Significance Pants Working Class Papa

Book:The romance of American Communism

Source: The romance of American Communism

“As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.”

People Men World Government Girl House Women President Work White Cities Boys Honest Industry White House Expecting Readiness Discounts Cities In The World

Author:Jane Swisshelm

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”

Motivational House Politics Work Poverty Economy Violence Society Example Safe Built Safety Libertarian Civil War Liberalism

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier

“A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.”

Source: The Select Works of William Penn....

“Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.”

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.”

Important Hard Care House Work Members Congress Inequality Health Care My Time Colleagues Coverage

Author:Paul Gillmor

“The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process”

States Moments House Process Work Labor Naked Destroyed Toil Consumed Housework

Author:Mary McCarthy