The ideal attitude toward work is beautifully presented in Matthew Arnold's sonnet on "Quiet Work": One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, One lesson which in every wind is blown; One lesson of two duties kept at one Though the loud world proclaim their enmity- Of toil unsevered from tranquillity; Of labor, that in lasting fruit outgrows Far noisier schemes, accomplished in repose, Too great for haste, too high for rivalry.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
He held out the unsevered wool, his eyes laughing at her over it.
"The Keeper of the Door"
Ethel M. Dell
The bitter anguish of his aged household companion, the father of his wife, to whom bonds of love still unsevered united him, touched even Seitz Siebenburg.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers