Honor lies in honest toil.
Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day!
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.
Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.
Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!
Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.
Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.
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.
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.
There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women are at once gentle, reflective, firm; steeped with a sense of self, the lives of women growing older are lives of care, toil, splendour and glory. . . the future is not to be feared.