"...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor."
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"Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor"
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"No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him."
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"In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant."
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"Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear."
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"The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows."
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"There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows."
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"The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed."
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"What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?"
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"It's usually much easier for people with professional skills to find work for themselves or even possibly to continue with their old employer, but on a part-time basis. Some labor economists predict that in about five years there will be a labor shortage in the United States and that demand for retirees to work part-time will grow naturally. I don't know if that's true or just wishful predicting."
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"The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor."
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"Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets."
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"The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines."
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"I have not earned what I have already enjoyed."
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"We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end."
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"We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus."
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"My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life), was slightly tinged with a feeling of sadness."
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"Labor in loneliness is irksome."
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"Imagination labors best in distant fields."
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"What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there."
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