Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil. — Cyril Smith Copy Share Image
Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil. — Benjamin Franklin 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
Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of… — Johann Martin Usteri Copy Share Image
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
