Qui orat et laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.
He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
Such hath it been—shall be—beneath the sun
The many still must labour for the one.
| author = Byron
| work = The Corsair. Canto I. St. 8.
| seealso = (See also Shelley, Thompson, Topper, Watson, also Goldsmith under Government)
| topic = Labor
| page = 424
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Not all the labor of the earth
Is done by hardened hands.
Will Carleton—A Working Woman.
And yet without labour there were no ease, no
rest, so much as conceivable.
Carlyle—Essays. Characteristics.
They can expect nothing but their labor for
their pains.
| author = Cervantes
| work = Don Quixote.
| place = Author's Preface.
Edward Moore—Boy and the Rainbow.
| seealso = (See also Troilus and Cressida)
| topic = Labor
| page = 424
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror,
enriching and building up nations more surely
than the proudest battles.
Wm. EtiTiF.ry Channing—War.
Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores:. nee
male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine:
Gracum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis
laborum est prateritorum 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.
A truly American sentiment recognises the
dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in
honest toil.
Cleveland—Letter accepting the nomination
for President. Aug. 18, 1884.
American labor, which is the capital of our
workingmen.
Cleveland—Annual Message. Dec, 1885.
When admirals extoll'd for standing still,
Of doing nothing with a deal of skill.
| author = Cowper
| work = Table Talk. L. 192.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Woodward)
li
Honest labour bears a lovely face.
Tnos. Dekker—Patient Grissett. Act I.
Sc. 1.
LABOR
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
F. W. Faber—The Sorrowful World.
It is so far from being needless pains, that it
may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.
Fuller—Pisgah. Sight of Palestine. Ed.
1650. P. 128. Worthies. P. 302. (Ed. 1661)
| seealso = (See also first Quotation.)
| topic = Labor
| page = 424
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>For as labor cannot produce without the use
of land, the denial of the equal right to the use
of land is necessarily the denial of the right of
labor to its own produce.
Henry George—Progress and Poverty. Bk.
VII. Ch. I.
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.
| author = Goldsmith
| work = The Deserted Village. L. 99.
IB
Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
Quoted by Grottos on his death bed.
| seealso = (See also Woodward)
| topic = Labor
| page = 424
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>If little labour, little are our gaines:
Man's fortunes are according to his paines.
| author = Herrick
| work = Hesperides. No Paines, No Gaines .
To labour is the lot of man below;
And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
Homes—Iliad. Bk. X. L. 78
| note = Pope's trans.
Our fruitless labours mourn,
And only rich in barren fame return.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. X. L. 46
| note = 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.
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.
O laborum
Dulce lenimen.
sweet solace of labors.
Horace—Carmina. I. 32. 14.
In silvam ligna ferre.
To carry timber into the wood.
Horace—Satires. I. 10. 24.
| seealso = (See also Aristophanes)
| topic = Labor
| page = 424
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Cur quseris quietem, quam nafus sis ad laborem?
Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born
to labor? .
Thomas A Kempis—De Imitatione Chnstt.
II. 10. 1.
