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William Shakespeare on Work

1564–1616 England

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Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation. Hal: 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.

Why, universal plodding poisons up
The nimble spirits in the arteries,
As motion and long-during action tires
The sinewy vigour of the traveller.

The labour we delight in physics pain.

Macbeth (1605)

What work's, my countrymen, in hand? where go you
With bats and clubs? The matter? speak, I pray you.

Another lean, unwashed artificer.

King John (1598)

I have had my labour for my travail.

Troilus and Cressida (1602)

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