"None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have."
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"Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away."
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"Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life."
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"And panting Time toil'd after him in vain."
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"By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us."
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"Success is the reward for toil."
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"So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more."
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"To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still."
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"To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame."
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"A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them."
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"Toil of science swells the wealth of art."
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"Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]"
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"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age."
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"Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one."
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"You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk."
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"Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil."
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"Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many."
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"Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead."
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