Contact
Privacy
Home
Latest
Oldest
Popular
Random
Home
»
tags
»
book-quote
»
A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it...
Author:
Edith Wharton
Book:
The Custom of the Country
Viewed:
100 -
Published at:
7 years ago
A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both.
( Edith Wharton )
[ The Custom of the Country ]
www.QuoteSweet.com
TAGS :
book-quote
motivation
work
servitude
grindstone
Related Quotes:
In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood
Two years after his departure from Harvard, Alpert embarked on a spiritual...
Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is...
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths.
It is a cherishable irony that a language that succeeded almost by stealth,...
Failure really can be an asset if what you're trying to do is improve, learn, or...
You may also like:
You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it...
It was already an age of scientific wonders that promised to reshape economies...
She was delicately morbid in all her gestures, sensitive, arrogant, vulnerable...
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time...
Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no...
Out of clutter, find simplicity. -ALBERT EINSTEIN After
Categories
book-quote (0.5m)
love (43k)
life (41k)
inspirational (29k)
philosophy (15k)
humor (15k)
god (14k)
truth (13k)
wisdom (11k)
happiness (10k)
About
Contact
Privacy
Terms of service
Disclaimer