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Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it. — Charles Dudley Warner

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. — Hamlin Garland

God can cause us to forget all our toil and make us fruitful even in the land of our affliction. That — S. Michael Wilcox

So it is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil. — Seneca.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. — Sun Tzu

Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more. — William Cowper

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay. — John Muir

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. — Emily Dickinson

Early sweats make up later pleasures — Israelmore Ayivor

It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil? — Mas Oyama

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. — Aesop

From the beginning, mankind has been divided into three parts, among men of prayer, men of toil, and men of war. Gerard, Bishop of Cambrai (1012-1051) — John Paul Davis

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. — Walter Scott

In all we do, and hear, and see,
Is restless Toil and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides — Anne Bronte

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil. — Oliver Goldsmith

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. — John Stuart Mill

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. — Grover Cleveland

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. — John Ruskin

I will toil under sun for what I want. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Toil is the true knight's pastime. — Charles Kingsley

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. — D.H. Lawrence

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race. — James Russell Lowell

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed! — Petrarch

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. — Tillie Olsen

At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin! — Mignon McLaughlin

The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat — Horace

Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world. — Homer

We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil. — Toussaint Louverture

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day. — John Milton

It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; — Samuel Johnson

Success, remember is the reward of toil. — Sophocles

Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning? — Catherine Lockwood

Good things come to those who wait,
better things to those who toil,
and great things to those who endure. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority. — Louis O. Kelso

In Heaven we shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the work. — David Berg

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. — Theophile Gautier

It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity. — Paul Kane

Passion is the driving element of purpose. When one is possessed with it, labor is not perceived as toil - it is revealed as love. — T.F. Hodge

Dare to dream and toil to achieve. — Auliq Ice

Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning. — Euripides

Withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well.15 — Winston S. Churchill

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. — Benjamin Franklin

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood. — Don McLean

The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Mine is the horny hand of toil. — John Singer Sargent

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? — John Gay

Without toil, would there be any tears? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Motives for greed and selfishness are often attributed to toil and source of riches. — Michael Bassey Johnson

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. — Jules Renard

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. — Livy

Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil. — Democritus

The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers. — Rosemary Radford Ruether

Luck hides behind sweat and toil. — Matshona Dhliwayo

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. — Henry David Thoreau

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. — Henry David Thoreau

You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true,
And unafraid of toil. — J.K. Rowling

We are all the fruits of pleasure's toil. — Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back — Seneca The Elder

The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life? — Li Bai

God's anger is the toil and suffering of man. Man's anger is the love and worship of his enemy. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I believe that they who wish to do easy things without trouble and toil must previously have been trained in more difficult things, — Joshua Foer

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil. — Benjamin Franklin

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. — Charles Dickens

The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel. — Terry Pratchett

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage. — William Howard Taft

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. — Rick Perry

Condemned to Hope's delusive mine,
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blasts or slow decline
Our social comforts drop away. — Samuel Johnson

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving. — Mortimer Adler

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance. — Norman Vincent Peale

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. — Oscar Wilde

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking. — Walter Scott

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. — Hesiod

If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain... — Assegid Habtewold

Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil. — Rabindranath Tagore

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own. — Thomas Kyd

None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil. — Herman Melville

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. — Samuel Johnson

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity. — Manoj Bhargava

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott

he said we should concern ourselves only with today, because the lilies in the field toil not, neither do they spin, but arrayed in glory. ... — Paulo Coelho

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. — Willa Cather

Good yield does not come without suffering, it does not come without struggle, and toil, and yes, loss. — Geraldine Brooks

But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. — John Sterling

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort. — Kevin DeYoung

You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise? I have endured toil and misery; I — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The present only is our own, So live, love, toil with a will, Place no faith in "Tomorrow," For the Clock may then be still." Robert H Smith — Darren Sugrue

A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. God favors those who toil while others play. — Sarah Price

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease. — Aesop

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? — Wilfred Owen

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals ... — Edward Gibbon

Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. — William Shakespeare

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame. — Alexander The Great

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. — H.P. Lovecraft