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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.
Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil.
The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.
Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.
So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.
Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
New Yorkers would be shocked to learn of the conditions some construction workers in our city toil under.
Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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.
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics.
(Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
No command of art,
No toil, can help you hear;
Earth's minstrelsy falls clear
But on the listening heart.
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
That old perplexity an empty purse,
Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
I think sometimes producers forget that people like interesting things. It doesn't always have to be 'Big Brother' or toil and torment.
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.
It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?
Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.
