For the labourer is worthy of his hire.

The Bible · Luke 10:7

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

The Bible · Proverbs 25:21–22

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

The Bible · Job 5:26

There is no riches above a sound body.

The Bible · Ecclesiasticus 30:16

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That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.

Izaak Walton · The source reads: “I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, “That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.”” · A saying of a wise friend, as Walton records it

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · The Village Blacksmith (1841), st. 7

One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

Charles Baudelaire · Mon Coeur Mis à Nu

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“For the labourer is worthy of his hire.”

“If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.”

“Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.”

“There is no riches above a sound body.”

“That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.”

“Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.”

“One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.”