"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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"Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament."
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"Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving."
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"Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep."
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"Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity."
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"No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil"
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"While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again."
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"Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions."
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"Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life."
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"If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more."
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend."
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"If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning."
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"Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease."
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"The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil."
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"If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property."
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"Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!"
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