"You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do."

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Ovid

#Work Quotes #Done Quotes

“No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.”
“When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.”

Source : "Interview: Richard Jenkins on First Lead Role in 'The Visitor,' 'Six Feet Under,' Coen Brothers". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.hollywoodchicago.com. June 24, 2008.
“What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.”
“Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.”
“Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.”
“It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.”
“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”

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