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“Handle your tools without mittens.”

Work Tools Handle Poor Richard Mittens

Book:The Way to Wealth

Source: The Way to Wealth

“The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.”

Work Tools Trade

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.”

Ifs Men Way I Can Hate Bits Work Pleasure Too Much Minutes Pride Arms Goes On Shots Tools I Hate Delight Strikes Clock Strokes Grindstone

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.”

Work Ready Tools Christian Inspirational Gods Will Thee

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”

People Ifs Way Giving Use Might Natural Work Ability Tools Surprise Curiosity Expected Natural Ability

Author:Bill Gates

“If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.”

Ifs Men Want Long Leadership Work Inspiring Saws Land He Man Tools Woods Setting Boat Settings Sail Organize New Beginnings Stitches Setting Sail

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement put them to work today.”

Way Life Giving Looks Two Hands Today Work Achievement Tools Reach Out

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.”

World Way Giving Helping Energy Work Progress Land Conditions Hard Work Labor Tools Accounts Improvement Generous Length Wages Prosperous Prudent Beginners Surplus Labor And Capital

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the greater part of our life's toil and moil will of a surety end, as the wise man predicted, in vanity and vexation of spirit, here is instant physical refreshment in the work the garden entails, and, in the end, our labor will be crowned with flowers.”

Men Life Needs Art Ends Spirit Artist Lines Work Greater Wise Our Lives Design Flower Prove Garden Labor Tools Painter Vanity Instant Print Spheres Toil Prove Myself Vexation Refreshments

Author:J. D. Sedding

“No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.”

Men World Hands Dies Waiting Born Work He Man Arms Tools Tasks Blessed Busy Occasions Toil Horny Errands

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell