Quotes with labor-making

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  • Samuel Smiles Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutified.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • James Weldon Johnson Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Mary McCarthy Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Akhenaton labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Bill Shorten Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • George Washington Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Johnson Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • John Ruskin Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carol Shields Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Walter Lippmann Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Mark Twain Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Horace Life gives nothing to man without labor.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Gilda Radner Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
    Gilda Radner
     
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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