Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are."
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Labor
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John Newton
Clergyman, Hymn Writer
"Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Exercise is labor without weariness."
Barbara Johnson
Author
"Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor."
Yasunari Kawabata
Novelist
"The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?"
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"Without labor nothing prospers."
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"I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing."
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"Everything in the world is purchased by labor."
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"Where there is no desire, there will be no industry."
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"Ah, why should life all labor be?"
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"A working class hero is something to be."
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"Labor is life; thought is light."
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"O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor."
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"There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other."
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"He who labours, prays."
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"I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment."
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"Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor."
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"Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital."
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"Labor is the true standard of value."
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"Labour is the source of every blessing."
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"It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others."
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"Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost."
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"I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors."
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"The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor."
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"The time for your labor has been granted."
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