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

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

Labour


On active worth the laurel war bestows; Peace rears her olive for industrious brows; Nor earth, uncultured, yields its kind supplies; Nor heaven its showers, without a sacrifice. Shenstone.—The Judgment of Hercules, Line 400.	1
As we are born to work, so others are born to watch over us while we are working. Goldsmith.—Essay, Specimen of a Magazine; Article “Speech.”	2
Clamorous labour knocks with its hundred hands at the golden gate of the morning. Newman Hall.—Lecture in Exeter Hall, on Jan. 30th, 1855.	3
Such hath it been—shall be—beneath the sun, The many still must labour for the one! Byron.—The Corsair, Canto I. Stanza 8.	4
I have had my labour for my travel. Shakespeare.—Troilus and Cressida, Act I. Scene 1.	5
We are pouring our words into a pierced cask: we are losing our pains. 1 Riley’s Plautus, Pseudolus, Act I. Scene 3. Page 274.	6
Labour like this our want supplies, And they must stoop who mean to rise. Cowper.—Satire IX.	7