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Labor: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Such hath it been shall be-beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.— BYRON — The Corsair. Canto I. St. 8.
And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.— CARLYLE — Essays. Characteristics.
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles. S.— WM. ELLERY CHANNING — War.
Honest labour bears a lovely face. THOS, DEKKER-Patient Grissell. Act I. Sc.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.— TENNYSON — Locksley Hall. St. 71.
Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.— TENNYSON — In Memoriam. CXIV.
Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.— DANIEL WEBSTER — Address delivered at
the Laying of the Corner-Stone of Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.— DANIEL WEBSTER — Address Delivered on
Bunker Hill, June 17, 1843. Yet all that I have learn'd (hugh toyles now past) By long experience, and in famous schooles, Is but to know my ignorance at last, Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools.
Pope's trans. To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.— HOMER — Iliad. Bk. X. L. 78.
Pope's trans. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.— HOOD — Song of the Shirt.
For men must work and women must weep.— CHARLES KINGSLEY — The Three Fishers.
From labor there shall come forth rest. LONGFELLOw-To a Child. L. 162. Taste the joy That springs from labor.— LONGFELLOW — Masque of Pandora. Pt. VI. In the Garden.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.— LONGFELLOW — Birds of Passage. The St. 10. Ladder of St. Augustine. St. 10.
But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run.— MILTON — Comus. L. 1,012.
Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.— FRANCES S. OSGOOD — To Labor is to
Pray. Labor is rest-from the sorrows that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that hire us to ill. Work-and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work-thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow ! Work with a stout heart and resolute will!— FRANCES S. OSGOOD — To Labor is to
Pray. The man who by his labour gets His bread, in independent state, Who never begs, and seldom eats, Himself can fix or change his fate.— PRIOR — The Old Gentry.
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 54.
Arbores serit diligens agricola, quarum adspiciet baccam ipse numquam. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.— CICERO — Tusculanarum Disputationum.
I. 14. Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores : nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Græcum enim hunc versum nôstis omnes: Suavis laborum est præteritorum memoria. It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant."— CICERO — De Finibus Bonorum et
Malorum. II. 32. Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis Proditor unus iners angusto tempore vertit. What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.— CLAUDIANUS — In Rufinum. II. 52.
Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti, si non, his utere mecum. If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 6. 67.
E cœlo descendit nosce te ipsum. This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.— JUVENAL — Satiræ. XI. 27.
Et teneo melius ista quam meum nomen. I know all that better than my own name,— MARTIAL — Epigrammata. IV. 37. 7.
Ego te intus et in cute novi. I know the man within and without.— PERSIUS — Satiræ. III. 30.
Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?— PERSIUS — Satiræ. I. 27.
O quanta species cerebrum non habet! O that such beauty should be so devoid of understanding!— PHEDRUS — Fabulæ. I. 7. 2.
Plus scire satius est, quam loqui. It is well for one to know more than he says.— PLAUTUS — Epidecus. I. 1. 60.
Faciunt næ intelligendo, ut nihil intelligant. Faith! by too much knowledge they bring it about that they know nothing.— TERENCE — Andria. Prologue. XVII. L.
O laborum Dulce lenimen. O sweet solace of labors.— S. HORACE — Carmina. I. 32. 14.
Qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit. He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold.— HORACE — Ars Poetica. CCCCXII.
Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum. Thinking that nothing was done, if anything remained to do.— LUCAN — Pharsalia. II. 657.
и. Labor est etiam ipsa voluptas. Labor is itself a pleasure.— MANILIUS — Astronomica. IV. 155.
Stultus labor est ineptiarum. Labor bestowed on trifles is silly.— MARTIAL — Epigrammata. II. 86. 10.
Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus. I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty.— OVID — Ars Amatoria. II. 537.
Dum vires annique sinunt. tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede. While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. C.— OVID — Ars Amatoria. II. 669.
Facilis descensus Averno, *** Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras Hic labor, hoc opus est. The descent into hell is easy, but to recall your steps, and re-ascend to the upper air, this is labor, this is work.— VIRGIL — Eneid. VI. 126.
Labor omnia vincit improbus. Stubborn labor conquers everything.— VIRGIL — Georgica. I. 145.
Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kann gehen. The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.— SCHILLER — Fiesco. III. 4.