The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this-with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need-this life is hell.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Black activist Black writer Writer Activist

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United States

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Citation

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "Advice to a Great-Grandson." His 90th birthday celebration. 1958, The Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY, USA. Address.

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Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

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Being present Nature of life Life

Author

Allen Saunders
Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Saunders, Allen. Quoted in Reader's Digest. Jan. 1957.

Another quote about Work

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

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Mark Twain
Source
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Medium
Novel
Genre
Children's literature Adventure novel
Language
English
Time
1876 1870s 19th century
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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, edited by Peter Stoneley. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 2.