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“How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.”

Want Years Children Self Purpose Work Sleep Pleasure Willing Comfort Activity Deny Ease Defeated Restless

Author:Ida Tarbell

“I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

Persons Done Running Work Chance Sleep Half Ten Leaving Clock Insomnia Undone Other Half One Half

Book:Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“Plough deep while sluggards sleep.”

Success Opportunity Work Sleep Effort Hard Work Corn Poor Richard

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.”

Thinking Littles Work Sleep Behinds Silence Library Gentleman Shelves Biographies Can't Sleep

Book:The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays

Source: The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays

“Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.”

Needs Wells May Motivational Work Sleep Health Exercise Work Out Plenty Live By Fitness Cheerful Need You Massage Hurrying Fitness Motivational Healing The Body

Author:James Freeman Clarke

“Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.”

Soul Body Action Work Sleep Concerned

Book:The Dialogues of Plato

Source: The Dialogues of Plato