| I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| Author:
Chesterfield, LordEra:
1694 |
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| If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Without labor nothing prospers. -- Sophocles |
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SophoclesEra:
-496 |
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| Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. -- Adam Smith |
| Author:
Smith, AdamEra:
1723 |
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| A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. -- Victor Hugo |
| Author:
Hugo, VictorEra:
1802 |
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| The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. -- Menander |
| Author:
MenanderEra:
-342 |
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| When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland |
| Author:
Cleveland, GroverEra:
1837 |
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| Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. -- Daniel Webster |
| Author:
Webster, DanielEra:
1782 |
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| All wealth is the product of labor. -- John Locke |
| Author:
Locke, JohnEra:
1632 |
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| Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. -- Robert Burton |
| Author:
Burton, RobertEra:
1576 |
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| If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us. -- Kin Hubbard |
| Author:
Hubbard, KinEra:
1868 |
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| Every sin is the result of a collaboration. -- Stephen Crane |
| Author:
Crane, StephenEra:
1871 |
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| As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. -- Horace Greeley |
| Author:
Greeley, HoraceEra:
1811 |
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