“Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“Sum up at night what thou has done by day.”
This line, in the more grammatical form, "Sum up at night what thou hast done by day", is from George Herbert's The Temple, The Church Porch, line 451.
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