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Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: in a sermon to the people of Queenhith, advertised in the "Daily Courant", Oct. 6, 1709
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He who labours, prays.
[Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: in a sermon to the people of Queenhith, advertised in the "Daily Courant", Oct. 6, 1709
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He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
[Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.]
Author: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Source: Ad sororem
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We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you
in our prayers;
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of
love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight
of God and our Father;
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
Author: Bible
Source: I Thessalonians (ch. I, v. 2-4)
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For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that
treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his
reward.
Author: Bible
Source: I Timothy (ch. V, v. 18)
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Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun
The many still must labour for the one.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Corsair (canto I, st. 8)
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Not all the labor of the earth
Is done by hardened hands.
Author: Will Carleton
Source: A Working Woman
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as
conceivable.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Characteristics
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
- Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote--Author's Preface
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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and
building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
Author: William Ellery Channing
Source: War
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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says,
for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past
labors is pleasant."
[Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male
Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc
versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (II, 32)
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American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.
Author: Steven Grover Cleveland
Source: Annual Message
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and
the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Author: Steven Grover Cleveland
Source: Letter accepting the nomination for President
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When admirals extoll'd for standing still,
Of doing nothing with a deal of skill.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Table Talk (l. 192)
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Honest labor bears a lovely face.
Author: Thomas Dekker
Source: Patient Grissell (act I, sc. 1)
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Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Author: Rev. Frederick William Faber
Source: The Sorrowful World
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It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring
considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Pisgah--Sight of Palestine (ed. 1650, p. 128)
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less
competition there.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Pisgah--Sight of Palestine (ed. 1650, p. 128)
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For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial
of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial
of the labor to its own produce.
Author: Henry George
Source: Progress and Poverty (bk. VII, ch. I)
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 99)
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I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
[Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 99)
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If little labour. little are our gaines:
Man's fortunes are according to his paines.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Hesperides--No Paines, No Gaines
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To labour is the lot of man below;
And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 78), (Pope's translation)
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Our fruitless labours mourn,
And only rich in barren fame return.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. X, l. 46), (Pope's translation)
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With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: Song of the Shirt
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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Author: Menander
Source: None
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Author: Joseph Joubert
Source: None
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
Author: Luc De Clapiers
Source: None
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Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
Author: Orville Dewey
Source: None
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By labor fire is got out of stone.
Author: Dutch Proverb
Source: None
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Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.
Author: Alexander Crummell
Source: None
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
Author: John D. Rockefeller
Source: None
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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
Author: Mother Jones
Source: None
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The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs.
Author: Mother Jones
Source: None
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On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.
Author: Mother Jones
Source: None
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Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges.
Author: Harriet H. Robinson
Source: None
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Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
Author: Mother Jones
Source: None
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Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
Author: John Florio
Source: None
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I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Author: Benjamin Harrison
Source: None
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There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: None
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A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Author: Robert Collyer
Source: None
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Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.
Author: Meridel Le Sueur
Source: None
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He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Source: None
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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Source: None
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