"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies that ever tested mankind."
-Thomas Carlyle
"I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated, and ... I feel somehow as if the real pity was for those who had been beguiled into the perilous delusion that it isn't."
-Henry James
"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair."
-Edmund Burke
"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what becomes by it."
-John Ruskin
all quotes lifted from On Virtues by Sheldon Whitehouse
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