Quote by Isak Dinesen
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. – Isak Dinesen

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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. – Isak Dinesen

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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. – John Burroughs

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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. – Susan B. Anthony

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If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but thats not the way to produce good work. – J. K. Rowling

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I work to stay alive. – Bette Davis

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