Toil Quotes - Page 6

• Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings, washed, combed, and in their Sunday best.... They are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality... They simply look out of place in black clothes and stiff collar, since clearly they belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Great Ice Age. These ox-like men are descendants of those who always stayed behind.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Sunday, Men, Clothes

  "The Old World in the New". Book by Edward Alsworth Ross, edition.cnn.com. 1914.

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• Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile-sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Song, Spring, Father

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, Simple, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.92

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• Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hurt

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• Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?

  Olaudah Equiano

  Country, Luxury, Feelings

  Olaudah Equiano (1967). “Annotated The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa, The African with English Grammar Exercises: by Olaudah Equiano (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.34, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ambition, Men, May

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.91

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• Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rain, Fall, Blow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

  Charles Churchill

  Pain, Farewell, Men

  Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.106

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• The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Truth, Lying

  1922 Prejudices, 3rd series, ch.14.

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• The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Truth, Honesty

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• Peace and rest at length have come,
  All the day's long toil is past;
  And each heart is whispering, "Home,
  Home at last!"

  Thomas Hood

  Peace, Home, Heart

  Thomas Hood (1861). “The daughters of king Daher; and other poems”, p.62

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• Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

  William of Conches

  Society, Rejoice, Probity

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• The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

  Li Bai

  Dream, World, Empty

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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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Self, Limitless, Capacity

  "The Crack-Up" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, www.esquire.com. 1936.

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• The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.

  Anders Chydenius

  Opportunity, Fruit, May

  "The National Gain" by Anders Chydenius, (§20), 1765.

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• Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Heart, Men, Patriotism

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• So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Heart, Law

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.306, Cambridge University Press

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• When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in frosty chains The fallow and the flood; In God the earth rejoices still, And owns her Maker good.

  Reginald Heber

  Summer, Spring, Flower

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• Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Perseverance, War, Blood

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• The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Faith, Frustration, Calm

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• Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Fighting, Knowing, Giving

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• Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.

  William Cowper

  Bravery, Brave

  'On the Loss of the Royal George' (written 1782)

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• By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Strength, Patience, Time

  Jean de La Fontaine (1843). “Fables”, p.98

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• Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

  Livy

  Opposites, Together, Connections

  Livy (1823). “The History of Rome”, p.417

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