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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Let us take to our hearts a lesson— No lesson could braver be— From the ways of the tapestry weavers On the other side of the sea. Anson G. Chester—Tapestry Weavers. Penelopse telam retexens. Unravelling the web of Penelope. Cicero—Acad. Qwest. Bk. IV. 29. 95. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Homer) All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair— The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing— And Winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. Coleridge—Work Without Hope. St. 1. le Every man's work shall be made manifest. / Corinthians. III. 13. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 908 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Work thou for pleasure—paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve— Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee. Kenton Cox—Our Motto. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Kipling) Better to wear out than to rust out. Bishop Cumberland, to one who urged him not to wear himself out with work. See Horne—Sermon on the Duty of Contending for the Truth. Boswell—Tour to the Hebrides. P. 18. Note. Said by George Whttepield, according to Southey—Life of Wesley. II. p. 170 (Ed. 1858) | topic = | page = 908 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else—or wait till I get through." I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along: But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong. One day I needed the Lord—needed Him myself—needed Him right away, And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do. You get somebody else or wait till I get through." Paul Laurence Dunbar—The Lord had a Job. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 908 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. Eceksiastes. I. 8. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 908 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The grinders cease because they are few. Eceksiastes. XTL 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 908 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. Quoted by Maria Edgewokth—Henry and Lucy. Vol. II. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 908 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush. Ebenezer Elliot—Corn Law Rhymes. No. 7. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 908 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. Emerson—Quatrains. Nature. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 908 }}