The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults.
I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.
Some shall reap that never sowAnd some shall toil and not attain.
Those who think must govern those that toil.
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God. "
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.
Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul.
Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.
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.
Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals. . .
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.