The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broad swords, or canals, or statues, or songs....Ralph Waldo Emerson

Employment, which Galen call's "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery....Robert Burton

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness....Claudius Galen (Galenus)

The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employ itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving wholesome employment to others....Anon

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him, come out, as I do, and bark....Samuel Johnson

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment and well-paid labor produce, in a country like ours, general prosperity, content, and cheerfulness. Thus happy have we seen the country....Daniel Webster

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; they must have a sense of success in it....John Ruskin 

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