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To work! Hour by hour, day by day; to employ one's hands and brain. / To strive; to win an inch along the way; to lose; to start again. / Oh! it is joy to work unceasingly with might and main. Hard work is / not a burden, ever. The busy ones are enviable indeed. They have no / time for petty ills that sever the power to do, from the insistent / need. That little leisure snatched for a respite, how packed it is / with joy and keen delight. Gold cannot buy it. 'Tis reserved for / those who labour through the day until its close. Work does not irk. / It brings relief; assuages grief; increases pleasure; adds to the / measure of any happiness we find; and brings to the mind a peaceful / satisfaction; to the heart, a glow. Oh! work! You are the kindest / friend we know.