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Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)

He who labours, prays. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)

He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. (Quote by - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux)

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. (Quote by - Bible)

Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one. (Quote by - Lord Byron )

Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands. (Quote by - Will Carleton)

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes (Quote by - Cervantes )

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)

American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen. (Quote by - Steven Grover Cleveland)

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. (Quote by - Steven Grover Cleveland)

When admirals extoll'd for standing still, Of doing nothing with a deal of skill. (Quote by - William Cowper)

Honest labor bears a lovely face. (Quote by - Thomas Dekker)

Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong. (Quote by - Rev. Frederick William Faber)

It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

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 labor to its own produce. (Quote by - Henry George)

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. (Quote by - Homer )

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. (Quote by - Homer )

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. (Quote by - Menander)

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