| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Toil |
| | | Bodily labor alleviates the pain of the mind; whence arises the happiness of the poor. La Rochefoucauld. | 1 |
| Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection. Livy. | 2 |
| | He chooses best, whose labor entertains |
| His vacant fancy most; the toil you hate |
| Fatigues you soon, and scarce improves your limbs. |
Armstrong. | 3 |
| Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. Bulwer-Lytton. | 4 |
| | Toil, and be strong; by toil the flaccid nerves |
| Grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone: |
| The greener juices are by toil subdued, |
| Mellow’d, and subtilis’d; the vapid old |
| Expell’d, and all the rancor of the blood. |
Armstrong. | 5 |
| | The body * * * |
| Much toil demands; the lean elastic less. |
| While winter chills the blood and binds the veins, |
| No labors are too hard; by those you ’scape |
| The slow diseases of the torpid year, |
| Endless to name. |
Armstrong. | 6 | | |
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