Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "It is not your duty to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it"

• We enjoy a quiet but satisfying yuletide until people from the social services come to release us
• It isn’t fun to hide. But it will protect you from lightning.
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
• Duty Free (user)
• It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
• The Complete Works of John Donne
• The Complete Master Works
• How to node from work
• Duty is weightier than a mountain, but death is lighter than a feather
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• Work where you must but live and shop in Tustin
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• Rockman Complete Works
• Ten ways to free yourself from the tyranny of your mouse
• The people from work table
• I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
• The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
• Finding free anime on the internet
• Free but worthless shares
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• Duty Free Shop
• How to steal from your work
• A solution to spam (which doesn't work, but nice try)
• Y2K from people who worked that night
• works from A Quest for Local Knowledge (category)
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• I can cast Zulthon's Glowing Rings, but I cannot cast you from my heart
• The Complete Works of James Baldwin
• Where I'm Calling From, A Grand Don't Come For Free
• Free yourself from fear
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Inspiration from the Heart: The Collected Works of Mary Turner
• Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare
• Getting free pizza
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• I tried to laugh but my photocells were cold from the night
• Sorry to eat and run, but I've got to go stop Lincoln from killing Hitler in his crib
• Duty Free
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• Getting free computer parts
• How to work an airplane toilet door lock from the outside
• I wrote you a letter on the bus back from the city, but that's a different kind of weary
• Women are from Earth, but men only wander it
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• Effort on behalf of those we love is not work, but prayer disguised
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• Good from far, but far from good
• What is real but compassion as we move from birth to death
• Get home from work
• He learned to dance from emus but he learned to love from seraphim
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me
• The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
• not running from, but going to
• Sticks and stones may break your bones, but the tongue will crush you
• Scenes from Tim Rogers in Space, part 1
• On Returning A Call From An Unknown Phone Number
• ain't nothin' but a family thing
• 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
• We're acting happy to stop ourselves from going insane.
• Sane but Overwhelmed (user)
• No Snakes, but We’ve Got a Lot of Folks Looking
• Butt Science Direct (user)
• from Okinawa to Brooklyn
• I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend your other, less ludicrous opinion that glitch speed runs are pointless.
• heart medications which all have names like alien military from other planets
• Ain't what I'm gonna be, ain't what I wanna be, but lord thank you I ain't what I used to be.
• Have you tried to keep the river from the sea?
• Four types of male reactions when buying pornography from a female cashier
• But is it local?
• stealing candy from babies
• but you wanna be bad
• In the Fifties, a visitor from Great Britain to New York City notices a young Black woman driving a limousine. A portly middle-aged man, race undetermined, is in the back. Tell her story.
• Sad but true. Won't ever change. The end.
• i'm flying from a fire
• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but leaves a trail of busted stuff
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• It is nearly always fatal, but amusing while it lasts.
• nothing comes from nowhere
• Bye Don, you were nothing but a waste of time
• negative work
• you complete me
• Copper works
• complete graph
• How to avoid jury duty
• salvation through works
• A day in the life of a County Court duty solicitor
• The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy
• How interactive fiction works (part 3)
• Does free will exist?
• Jacking off in the bathroom at work
• Leader of the Free World
• Drinking at work
• Freedom isn't Free
• Great tricks to play on the new kid on the job
• Free drinks at the topless bar
• Work Without Hope
• Almost Free Software
• How to time waste at work
• Free Trade Area of the Americas
• Hebrews: The Superiority of Christ and His Works
• Brethren of the Free Spirit
• free variable
• free mount
• Analyzing published works
• Controlled by fear and yet calling ourselves free
• More Work for Mother
• I have thrown myself free of the yoke of arrogance.
• I don't want to go back to work
• Online free bingo on (user)
• An Account of the Bash at Bier Baron in Celebration of CassParadox's Upcoming Migration to the West Coast, Wherein We Were Loved by All, and Even the Manager Sent Over Free Cream Puffs
• Sugar Free Gummibears
• From the Earth to the Moon
• Happy Labor Day from Insomnia Boy
• Just some more jokes from the Necronomicon
• Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech
• The Revenge of the Teenage Vixens from Outer Space
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• In order that I may know something more before I depart from life
• Women you know you should just walk away from
• Where the stadium money came from
• Kent Montana and the Really Ugly Thing From Mars
• How to win the gold and prevent a baby from crying
• walk away from time
• A Letter from Grant Richards to James Joyce, June 14, 1906
• Keep guns away from drunks
• A final farewell from the President of the United States
• Grumbles from the Grave
• Getting what you want from tech support
• A Letter from the Powers of the Universe Concerning Love and Other Such Things
• A View from the Bridge
• unrestricted Jun 27, 2001 email from sensei (document)
• Copying from the dictionary
• Puzzles from Wonderland: Solutions for a sore head
• From the Cradle
• Peril from the Past
• Theme from Star Trek
• Making alcohol from a watermelon
• Making a smoker from a used oven
• Exiled from the world below
• The Wheel of Time has collapsed under the weight of its own bloated corpse
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• Staying power like no other memory, aside from love
• Another county heard from
• The odds are good, but the goods are odd
• From Hell, Hull, and Halifax may the Good Lord deliver us!
• Not really by the rules, but...
• You, born of the water, could you ever live far from the sea?
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• From the Earth to the Moon: 16: The Columbiad
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• Where do these girls come from these days? Some finishing school in the desert?
• But lately, I've been too tired to care
• 1931 European Letter from an MIT Grad
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• Songs from a solstice hymnal
• Nowhere to go but down
• The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Apartment
• This terrain is constantly changing, but if you look closely, you can find the patterns
• A Postcard from the Edge
• But they're entertaining lies, and in the end, isn't that the real truth?
• Slow train from night to morning
• Seymore Butts
• The light is red, but there is a green arrow
• from a contradiction everything follows
• The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
• Keep fragile species from reproducing
• You can learn a lot about someone from the way they die
• Buts (user)
• Tended Phoenix years from secret lair

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