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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Work or Reflection</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, I always have preserved a certain attitude<br>Quite definite in reference to Work <br>('Tis futility concealing<br>That I have the Weary Feeling<br>And tendency perennial to shirk) <br>Still, I always strive to recognise the principle<br>That earnest, steady toil is ever best;<br>So that, having recognised it,<br>Not to say idealised it,<br>I would fain lay down my pen and take a rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, you understand, to recognise a principle<br>Is patently a virtue in itself.<br>After that you have the option,<br>Of its strenuous adoption,'<br>Or the placing of it gently on a shelf.<br>For myself, I'm forced to own that though my theory's<br>A thing of beauty, even in the rough,<br>Dearth of cash supplies good reasons,<br>With the Passing of the seasons,<br>That this simple recognition's not enough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it's Work - Toil - Graft <br>It's accomplishment that matters in the end;<br>And the act of recognition,<br>Even by a politician,<br>Has not ever yet been known to make or mend.<br>And the man who holds a lamp-post up without much fret or fuss,<br>He may 'recognise a principle', and feel quite virtuous.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have read about the lives, in ancient history,<br>Of the Doers back in ev'ry age and clime;<br>And their method of reforming<br>Was reflecting and performing,<br>More especially the latter, every time.<br>But the man who sat and recognised the principles,<br>And calmly left accomplishment to Fate,<br>May have won a reputation,<br>As a saviour of the nation,<br>But his name has been suppressed, at any rate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This has clearly been the rule since far antiquity:<br>Before a thing is done a man must act;<br>And all progress lay in knowing<br>What to do, and straightway going<br>And just working till reform became a fact.<br>But to stand on distant nodding terms with principle<br>Has been a most unprofitable trick.<br>You may scan historic pages,<br>And right down throughout the ages<br>Mere reflection never laid a single brick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it's Graft - Toil - Work,<br>It's performance that is needed in the land.<br>Recognition, by the student,<br>Of the principle is prudent,<br>But it never yet has shifted any sand.<br>And Hell is full of futile folk who scorned the verb 'to do,'<br>Who 'recognised the principle' but failed to see it through.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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Quite definite in reference to Work 
('Tis futility concealing
That I have the Weary Feeling
And tendency perennial to shirk) 
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