Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take… — Elizabeth Chase Allen Copy Share Image
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is… — Victor Hugo 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
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
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? –… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered,… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden… — August Spies Copy Share Image
Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers'… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have,… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
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
