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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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I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
[Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
[Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]

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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to read more

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less
competition there.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Labor Quotes,
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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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He who labours, prays.
[Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]

He who labours, prays.
[Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]

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I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be read more

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

by Mother Jones Found in: Labor Quotes,
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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real read more

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

by Thomas Carlyle 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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The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. read more

The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs.

by Mother Jones Found in: Labor Quotes,
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Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and
building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and
building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

by William Ellery Channing Found in: Labor Quotes,
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