Quotes with labors

  • 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.
  • The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

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  • Alexander Herzen Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Menander of Athens He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Henry David Thoreau 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.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • André Gide It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Madame Guizot It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Albert Einstein Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Georges Bataille Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Bernard Gilpin Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.
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  • Richard Cobden The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
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  • Hubert Humphrey The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Samuel Johnson Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adam Clayton Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Adam Clayton Powell Unless man is committed to the belief that all of mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Albert Einstein A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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