Toil Quotes - Page 11

• You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil, Lay down the wreck of power to rest...

  Edward Everett

  Wrecks, Soil, Common

  "The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth". The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume V, No. 25, January-June 1823.

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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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Comfort, Aging, Social

  'On the Death of Dr Robert Levet' (1783)

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• For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

  Alexander Pope

  Lovers, Ends, Force

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.42, BookCaps Study Guides

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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.

  Aristotle

  Men, Together, Complaining

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

  Jane Addams

  Art, Men, Long

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.132, Hayes Barton Press

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• A few more years shall roll,
  A few more seasons come;
  And we shall be with those that rest,
  Asleep within the tomb.
  A few more storms shall beat
  On this wild rocky shore;
  And we shall be where tempests cease,
  And surges swell no more.
  A few more struggles here,
  A few more partings o'er,
  A few more toils, a few more tears,
  And we shall weep no more.
  Then, O my Lord, prepare
  My soul for that blest day;
  Oh, wash me in Thy precious blood,
  And take my sins away.

  Horatius Bonar

  Struggle, Blood, Years

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• With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

  John Smith

  Country, World, Causes

  John Smith (2007). “The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography”, National Geographic Books

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• Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.

  Julian of Norwich

  Running, Sweet, Spring

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• A verse of Scripture in the morning, may become a blessing for all the day. It may sing in the heart as a sweet song, from morning until evening. It may become a liturgy of prayer in which the soul shall voice its deepest needs and hungers-amid toils, struggles, and cares. It may be a guide through perplexing tangles, Gods voice whispering cheer, a comforter breathing peace in sorrow.

  J.R. Miller

  Sweet, Song, Morning

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• The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Lying, Hard Work, Speak

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• Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.

  Moncure D. Conway

  Bible, Plato, Inspiration

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• Extol not riches then, the toil of fools,
  The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt
  To slacken virtue, and abate her edge,
  Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

  John Milton

  Wise, Men, Fool

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.386

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• A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.

  Herman Melville

  Children, Father, Simple

  Herman Melville (2012). “Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.129, Jazzybee Verlag

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• On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again. It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offense to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement.

  Jack London

  Struggle, Moving, Men

  Jack London (2000). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.80, Modern Library

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• Mae, he made me go out for a run," Jamie called out. "Tell him I don't run!" "Jamie and I are lilies of the field. We toil not, neither do we jog," Mae informed Nick.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Running, Lilies, Fields

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• The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Men, Wish

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.19, 谷月社

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• All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Men, Long

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• …their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

  John Muir

  People, Curiosity, Comfort

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.39, Great West Books

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• Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any mountain I'd been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking above all else, something like a state of grace.

  Jon Krakauer

  Pain, Climbing, Order

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Aug 27, 2011

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• How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?

  Robert E. Howard

  Sweat, Forever, Soul

  Robert E. Howard (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert E. Howard (Illustrated)”, p.1961, Delphi Classics

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• It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Education, Mother, Father

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.

  Jack London

  Sunshine, Self, Expression

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• Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.

  Cyril Smith

  Money, Feet, Desire

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• though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Plot, Corn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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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.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, May, Harvest

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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