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We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
Maria Montessori
We are the pioneers - our offspring reap the rewards. We toil so that future progeny will be superior and more honorable than us.
2.
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
Ignatius of Loyola
One who attempts to revolutionize the world must commence with themselves, or they will see no results.
3.
If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
Regina Brett
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Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
Luis Gutierrez
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Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.
John Newton
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Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
Ina May Gaskin
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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
Barbara Johnson
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The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?
Yasunari Kawabata
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The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
Nick Cave
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Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles
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As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
Thales
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I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
Hugo Grotius
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The purpose of labor is to learn;
when you know it, the labor is over.
Kabir
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Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
David Hume
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
John Locke
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington
21.
I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.
Lee Trevino
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A working class hero is something to be.
John Lennon
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No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Charles Sumner
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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
Abraham Lincoln
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The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.
Phineas Quimby
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
Tacitus
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I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment.
Theodore Roosevelt
33.
If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.
Bill Burr
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
Ambrose Bierce
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Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
George Eliot
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I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
William Hogarth
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He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
Saadi
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Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.
Pope Leo I
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Labour is the source of every blessing.
Aesop
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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To carry timber into the wood.
[Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]
Horace
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It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
Leonardo da Vinci
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. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.
Harold S. Kushner
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Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.
Confucius
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The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
Henry Fuseli
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Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.
Adolphe Thiers