Joshua Reynolds Quotes About Labor
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Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.
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Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.
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The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.
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