Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!
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To fall'n humanity our Father said, That food and bliss should not be found unsought; That man should labor for his daily bread; But not that man should toil and sweat for nought.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Labor, you know, is Prayer.
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O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor, with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
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Critics I saw, that other names deface, And fix their own, with labor, in their place.
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honor'd bones, The labor of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star y pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
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If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full time volunteers.
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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education & his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
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For the rest, Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind
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Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
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Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
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Art begins with resistance at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.
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Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.
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Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.
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