He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n;… — William Watson Copy Share Image
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood. — Don McLean Copy Share Image
How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which… — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils… — Aesop Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks!… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline… — Yahya Jammeh Copy Share Image
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“But our knowledge, the things we learn, can carry on in others after we are gone...The toil of this journey, our journey… — Tony DiTerlizzi Copy Share Image
