Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
William Shakespeare
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The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
Henry David Thoreau
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
John Sterling
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
James Whitcomb Riley
I think the years of toiling around in the minors have really helped.
Adam Wainwright
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.
Herbert Marcuse
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
Phillips Brooks
Twenty years hence a curve or a symbol will be called as Pearson's, and nothing more remembered of the toil of the years.
Karl Pearson
Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still.
Donald Grant Mitchell
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser
In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
Rose G. Kingsley
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This sort of steaming, young Newpsie-in-training socialite who's been toiling in Marissa's shadow all these years.
Josh Schwartz
The path that leads to a loaf of bread, Winds through the swamps of toil; And the path that leads to a suit of clothes, Goes through a flowerless soil, And the paths that lead to the loaf of bread, And the suit of clothes are hard to tread.
Sam Walter Foss
[T]hose who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
Mary Ritter Beard
Horny-handed sons of toil.
Lord Salisbury
Mine is the horny hand of toil.
John Singer Sargent
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
Adam M. Smith
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives.
Hamlin Garland
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
John Wesley Powell
And a toiler dies in a day.
John Boyle O'reilly
RICHES, n. A gift from Heaven signifying, 'This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.' John D. Rockefeller The reward of toil and virtue. J.P. Morgan The sayings of many in the hands of one. Eugene Debs To these excellent definitions the inspired lexicographer feels that he can add nothing of va.
Ambrose Bierce
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.'
Sir Winston Churchill
Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil like laborers.
John Wycliffe
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.
Yahya Jammeh
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Work and thou wilt bless the dayEre the toil be done;They that work not cannot pray,Cannot feel the sun.
John Sullivan Dwight
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
William Alexander
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 . . .
Edward Everett Hale
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