Labor. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Labor


Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified. Hawthorne.—American Note-Books, August 12, 1841.	1
Clamorous labor Knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning. Longfellow.—Evangeline, Part I., iv. Line 4.	2
No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil! Lowell.—A Glance Behind the Curtain, Line 202.	3
Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. Frances S. Osgood.—Laborare est Orare.	4
Labor is rest,—from the sorrows that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. Frances S. Osgood.—Laborare est Orare.	5
Labor is the law of happiness. Abel Stevens.—Life of Madame de Staël, Chap. XVI.	6
Labor, you know, is Prayer. Bayard Taylor. Improvisations, St. 11.	7