Toil Quotes - 2
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Our heart's where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honour We pledge to our native soil!
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More Toil Quotes
The past Hours weak and gray With the spoil which their toil Raked together From the conquest but One could foil.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (1820), Act IV, scene 1.
Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.
thomas campbell— Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, Part I, line 45
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
— In Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862), Henry Southgate (ed.), Griffin, Bohn, and Co. (London), p. 340.
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society.
herbert marcuse— Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man (1964), p. 126
Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
thomas gray— Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, lines 29-36 (1751)
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
gerard manley hopkins— 1877 'God's Grandeur'.
The Harper smiled, well pleased; for ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear: A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile.
— 1805 The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto 4, conclusion.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser— 1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 9, stanza 40.
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— The National Gain, §20, 1765.
But oars alone can ne'er prevailTo reach the distant coast;The breath of Heaven must swell the sail,Or all the toil is lost.
william cowper— "Human Frailty", line 21 (1779).
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
horace mann— p. 7 (Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872))
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— The Tables Turned.
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
william cowper— William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book III, line 187.
Whence thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
john gay— Introduction, "The Shepherd and the Philosopher"; "Midnight oil" was a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others.
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— Line 93. (Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (1754))
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— St. 60. (The Mask of Anarchy (1819))
When with all thy heart thou strivest to live with truth and love, couldst thou do anything better? ... If this be thy life, thou shalt not deem it a misfortune to lack the things men most crave and toil for.
john lancaster spalding— p. 276 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
— Democritus (ca. 4th century BCE). Tr. Kathleen Freeman, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1948).
Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.
— P. 468. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."
edward everett— Edward Everett, Alaric the Visigoth.
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
henry van dyke— Toiling of Felix, last line.
Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.
william watson— New National Anthem
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist, but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended to a higher atmosphere.
— Sir Arthur Helps, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux]], p. 296.
Great albatross! the meanest birds Spring up and flit away, While thou must toil to gain a flight, And spread those pinions grey; But when they once are fairly poised, Far o'er each chirping thing Thou sailest wide to other lands, E'en sleeping on the wing.
— Charles G. Leland, Perseverando, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 19.
Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw, With graceless toil of beak and added claw, The meagre food that scarce thy want allays! And this to gratify the gloating gaze Of fools, who value Nature not a straw, But know to prize the infraction of her law And hard perversion of her creatures' ways! Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired, Where notes of liquid utterance should engage Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.
— Julian Fane, Poems, Second Edition, with Additional Poems, To a Canary Bird; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 89.
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble.
john dryden— John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (1697), line 99.
2 Kalki 23:32, 25 December 2008 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 23:53, 25 December 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 3. 3 InvisibleSun 16:14, 25 December 2007 (UTC) 2 Zarbon 20:33, 26 April 2008 (UTC) Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. ~ Thomas Gray (born December 26, 1716)
— I would also like to mention that MosheZadka gave this one a 3 on the date of September 9. UDScott, InivisibleSun, and Kalki all gave it a 2 on the date of December 16. Zarbon 16:35, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Nicole was the product of much ingenuity and toil. … She illustrated very simple principles, containing in herself her own doom, but illustrated them so accurately that there was grace in the procedure, and presently Rosemary would try to imitate it.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Tender is the Night (1934), Book I, Ch. 12
Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.
— 1749 The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.155-60.
There mark what Ills the Scholar's Life assail, toil, Envy, Want, the Garret, and the Jail.
— Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) line 159.
— So the first edition of the poem. Johnson later changed "Garret" to "Patron".
