"The laboring man has not leisure for..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
“In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.”
“Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.”
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“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”
“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity”
“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.”
More on Integrity
“The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.”
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
“I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.”