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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor
 Our fruitless labours mourn,
 And only rich in barren fame return.  
 Our fruitless labours mourn,
 And only rich in barren fame return. 
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
 How blest is he who crowns in shades like these,
 A youth of labour with an age of ease.  
 How blest is he who crowns in shades like these,
 A youth of labour with an age of ease. 
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go read more
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
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.
 Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
 The protest of the weak against the strong.  
 Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
 The protest of the weak against the strong. 
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.