“I finally was ready to assume the risk of publicly presenting the things I had to bring my fellowmen. I truly found this anything but easy. Indeed, I had to struggle with considerable obstacles within my nature before I willingly could shoulder the burdensome responsibility which, in my opinion, everyone must bear who will put any sentence he has written into print for all the world to read.”
Bô Yin Râ
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble”
William Shakespeare
“Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit”
Sir Walter Scott
“Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness”
Herman Melville
“To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still”
Oscar Wilde
“The path that leads to a loaf of bread, Winds through the swamps of toil; And the path that leads to a suit of clothes, Goes through a flowerless soil, And the paths that lead to the loaf of bread, And the suit of clothes are hard to tread”
Sam Walter Foss
“Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these”
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