Meaning of “I resolved however to work hard, and thus…”

Unspoken Sermons; Project Gutenberg #9057. The short excerpt comes from a longer explicitly theological hierarchy of forms of life and must be read in that religious setting.

Working With the Hands, Chapter I, opening sentence; Project Gutenberg #64504. This deliberately short excerpt is presented with its educational context.

Aurora Leigh, Book III, printed page 95 / Wikisource scan leaf 104, scan-backed Chapman and Hall third edition (London, 1857), cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #56621. Aurora describes three years of literary work in Kensington and says, “Get work, get work; Be sure ’tis better than what you work to get.” The passage remains first-person verse-novel narration about vocation and work rather than a universal instruction to overwork or neglect health and rest.

As a Man Thinketh, chapter “The Thought-Factor in Achievement.”

Up from Slavery, Chapter XVI, “Europe,” Project Gutenberg #2376. While discussing Henry O. Tanner and recognition for excellent work, Washington restates his Tuskegee principle that advancement depends on doing useful work so thoroughly that its value becomes difficult to ignore.

Life Without Principle, The Atlantic Monthly, 1863; represented Wikisource text. The line follows Thoreau’s claim that a community cannot buy a wise person away from work that genuinely occupies him.