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Work (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠annul idleness, its opposite, but not boredom: the busiest workers, buzzing like insects, are the most tiresome of creatures.

Work (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a perfection: it would be an imperfection of existence if a man did not need to work; by working he makes himself free and becomes lord over nature.

Work (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠more beautiful than paradise: the lilies that neither toil nor spin are beautiful, Adam in Eden is beautiful — but still more beautiful is a man earning by his work what he needs, as it were his own providence.

Work (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠man's perfection, and that he must work is a still higher expression of it; it is not greatness in plants that they do not spin, but their imperfection that they cannot.

Work (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the only inheritance in the world of spirit: there a man gives birth to his own father, and having Abraham for an ancestor is no use.

Work (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the perfection of the human, since in working he resembles God, who works; a man who earns his bread does not support himself but works with God, as God's fellow-worker.