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Labor Quotes by John Ruskin
- Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
- When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
- See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
- Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
- Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there…
- Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
- No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of…
- Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
- When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will…
- Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared…
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- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
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- 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
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