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• ...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.

  Pope Pius X

  Country, Powerful, True Friend

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• We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.

  Susa Young Gates

  Love, Life, Struggle

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• Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here below. Who guards his post, no matter where, believing God must need him there, Although but lowly toil it be, has risen to nobility. For great and low there's just one test, 'tis that each man shall do his best, Who works with all the strength he can, shall never die in debt to man.

  Edgar Guest

  Real, Believe, Greatness

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Frustration, Men, Order

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• From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.

  Thomas Gray

  Peace, Winning, Night

  Thomas Gray, William Mason (1827). “The works of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings, by W. Mason”, p.408

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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!

  Washington Irving

  Rays, Brightness, Sunny Day

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• They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.

  Robert Southey

  Life, Passion, Love Is

  "The Curse of Kehama". Book by Robert Southey, 1810.

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• When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.

  Mencius

  Exercise, Men, Office

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.323

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• Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.

  Frank Chodorov

  Men, Cost, Libertarian

  Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.56, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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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?

  William Wordsworth

  Friendship, Book, Looks

  'The Tables Turned' (1798)

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• By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.'

  Gerolamo Cardano

  Men, Light, Games

  Gerolamo Cardano (2015). “The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability”, p.57, Courier Dover Publications

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• A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

  Terry Eagleton

  People, Astonishment, Socialism

  Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.82, Verso

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• The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Struggle, Patriotic

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• Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

  Alan Bradley

  Vineyards, Chemistry, Lord

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.240, Delacorte Press

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• Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, War, Fighting

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.17

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• ...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.

  Jack London

  Dog, Strong, Men

  Jack London (2016). “Klondike Two Pack: The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.8, Lulu.com

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• War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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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

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, President, Taxation

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• The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back

  Seneca the Elder

  Success, Believe, Winning

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• 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.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Have Faith, Faith In God, Ends

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• We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

  William Howard Taft

  Inspirational Life, Sacrifice, Greatness

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• We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Learning

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.619, Best Books on

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• Nothing is achieved without toil.

  Horace

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• I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Smoking, Virtue

  On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262

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• Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

  Euripides

  Reputation, Fame

  "Licymnius". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 430 BCE.

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