"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
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"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
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"When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay."
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