J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil."
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Toil
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Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end."
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!"
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature."
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"All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil."
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"Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship."
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"Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares."
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"If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law."
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"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
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"There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron."
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"Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home."
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"All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things."
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"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."
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"Remember, nothing succeeds without toil."
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"When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one."
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"A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control."
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"Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative."
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"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.""
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"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."
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"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other."
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"In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring."
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"Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear."
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"Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?"
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"Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both."
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