Toil Quotes - Page 2
Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
'Greater Love' (written 1917)
John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.439
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1848). “1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.35
Leila Aboulela (2007). “Minaret: A Novel”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 157
Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.56, Ludwig von Mises Institute
John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.123
Clement of Alexandria (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Clement of Alexandria (Illustrated)”, p.1025, Delphi Classics