If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.
Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.
Mine is the horny hand of toil.
You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity.
Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.
Honor lies in honest toil.
Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
Dr Parr. . . asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue. '
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.