"Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us"
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"Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it."
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"Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive."
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"I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better"
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"Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them."
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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government."
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"There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour."
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"Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success."
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"Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain."
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"Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved."
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"The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it."
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"Labor is the law of happiness."
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"Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital."
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"Work, work, work, is the main thing."
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"This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly."
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"Labor humanizes, exalts."
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"To love and to labor is the sum of living."
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"When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand."
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"Labor is God's education."
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"It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is."
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