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connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preoccupations of a work too special to be abdicated could not uninterruptedly dissimulate);
- George Eliot
It's all I've got to think of now—to do my work well and make the world a bit better place for them as can enjoy it.
- George Eliot
Nay, Miss, I'n got to keep count o' the flour an' corn; I can't do wi' knowin' so many things besides my work. That's what brings folks to the gallows,—knowin' everything but what they'n got to get their bread by. An' they're mostly lies, I think, what's printed i' the books: them printed sheets are, anyhow, as the men cry i' the streets.
- George Eliot
It's the will o' Them above as a many things should be dark to us; but there's some things as I've never felt i' the dark about, and they're mostly what comes i' the day's work. You were hard done by that once, Master Marner, and it seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.
- George Eliot
God has always worked wonders through his prophets to increase the faith of His chosen people or to correct their disobedience.
- Mother Angelica
I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
- Jennifer Lopez
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
- Mother Teresa
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.
- Thomas Monson
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.
- Edinson Cavani
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
- Sonia Sotomayor
Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.
- Joseph Wirthlin