“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
“Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.”
Charles Churchill
“Mine is the horny hand of toil.”
John Singer Sargent
“And blessed are the horny hands of toil”
James Russell Lowell
“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
“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
