"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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"Without labor nothing prospers."
"I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing."
"Everything in the world is purchased by labor."
"Where there is no desire, there will be no industry."
"Ah, why should life all labor be?"
"A working class hero is something to be."
"Labor is life; thought is light."
"O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor."
"There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other."
"He who labours, prays."
"I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment."
"Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor."
"Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital."
"Labor is the true standard of value."
"Labour is the source of every blessing."
"It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others."
"Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost."
"I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors."
"The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor."
"The time for your labor has been granted."