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    It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says,
    for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past
    labors is pleasant."
    [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male
    Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc
    versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
[Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat read more

He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
[Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.]

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When admirals extoll'd for standing still,
Of doing nothing with a deal of skill.

When admirals extoll'd for standing still,
Of doing nothing with a deal of skill.

by William Cowper Found in: Labor Quotes,
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Without labor nothing prospers.

Without labor nothing prospers.

by Sophocles Found in: Labor Quotes,
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With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat in unwomanly rags,
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With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread.

by Thomas Hood Found in: Labor Quotes,
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less read more

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,

by Samuel Gompers Found in: Labor Quotes,
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For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial
of the equal right to the use read more

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial
of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial
of the labor to its own produce.

by Henry George Found in: Labor Quotes,
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He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Labor Quotes,
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater read more

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

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All wealth is the product of labor.

All wealth is the product of labor.

by John Locke Found in: Labor Quotes,
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