Hidden fields
Books Books
" We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously; other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily; neither is to be done by halves or shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is not to be... "
The Optimistic Life - Page 109
by Orison Swett Marden - 1907 - 257 pages
Full view - About this book

Beauty. Nature. Architecture. Sculpture

John Ruskin - 1858 - 336 pages
...because so much pleasure was taken in it ; but it must have been happy too or it will not be living. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that...is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. There is dreaming enough, and earthiness enough, and sensuality enough in human existence, without...
Full view - About this book

The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 pages
...because so much pleasure was taken in it; but it must have been happy too or it will not be living. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that...is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. There is dreaming enough, and carthiness enough, and sensuality enough in human existence, without...
Full view - About this book

Three Great Teachers of Our Time: Being an Attempt to Deduce the Spirit and ...

Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 pages
...other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily: neither is to be done by halves and shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. Perhaps all that we have to do is meant for nothing more than an exercise of the heart 14—a and of...
Full view - About this book

The Parish Magazine for Berkeley, Dursley, Stinchcombe, and Uley

1878 - 840 pages
...into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. "We have certain work to do f_>r our bread, and that is to be done strenuously; other work to do for our pleasure, and that is to be done heartily. Nothing is to be done by halves and shifts, but with a will;...
Full view - About this book

Willing hearts and ready hands; or, The labours and triumphs of earnest women

Joseph Johnson - 1869 - 320 pages
...other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily; neither is to be done by halves and shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. Perhaps all that we have to do is meant for nothing more than an exercise of the heart and of the will,...
Full view - About this book

The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...because so much pleasure was taken in it; but it must have been happy too or it will not be living. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that...is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. There is dreaming enough, and earthiness enough, and sensuality enough in human existence, without...
Full view - About this book

The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin - 1890 - 350 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]
Snippet view - About this book

The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Volume 104

John Ruskin - 1880 - 306 pages
...other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily: neither is to be done by halves and shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. Perhaps all that we have to do is meant for nothing more than an exercise of the heart and of the will,...
Full view - About this book

The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin - 1880 - 508 pages
...our delight, and that is to be done no other . . night, heartily: neither is to be done by halves and shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is no. to be done at all. Perhaps all that we have to do is meant for nothing more than an exercise of...
Full view - About this book

The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin - 1880 - 314 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]
Snippet view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF