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Labor Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded…
- I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if…
- The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish…
- I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…
- The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which…
- I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
- But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.
- to one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes…
- Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of…
- The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a…
- Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and…
- Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put…
- If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on…
- The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors…
- When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a…
More Labor Quotes
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the… — Warren Beatty
- No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm
- We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector,… — Carol Bellamy
- Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for… — Grace Abbott
- I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to… — Lewis Black
- Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it… — Allan Bloom