Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 2032 |
| AUTHOR: | Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) |
| QUOTATION: | Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,—a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Work |