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• I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

  Zane Grey

  Stronger, Treasure, Torture

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• You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

  John Wesley Powell

  Views, Labyrinth, Might

  John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.397, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  John Armstrong

  Strong, Blood, Vapid

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• Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Fear, War, Greatest Victory

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to construct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was not more secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge indubitable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fall, Years, Elephants

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.725, Psychology Press

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• Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Rain, Play

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 33

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• 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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Work, Blessed, Men

  'A Glance Behind the Curtain' (1844)

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• Honor lies in honest toil.

  Grover Cleveland

  Success, Honesty, Work

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Advice, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]

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• Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

  Emily Dickinson

  Good Luck, Gambling, Chance

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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• Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

  Hesiod

  Shame, Source, Idleness

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• It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Men, Religion

  "Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion".

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• And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

  James Russell Lowell

  Blessed, Hands, Horny

  "A Glance Behind the Curtain" l. 205 (1843)

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  Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Memorable, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4

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• How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

  Joanna Russ

  Withered

  "The Female Man". Book by Joanna Russ (Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 22), February 1975.

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• There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

  Hamlin Garland

  Light, Wife, Sun

  1899 Boy Life on the Prairie,'Melons and Early Frost'.

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• 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

  Work, Grief, Men

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

  Anthony Trollope

  Retirement, Work, Parent

  Anthony Trollope (1983). “The Letters of Anthony Trollope”, p.691, Stanford University Press

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• Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones. We also offer to your fatherly hands the toil and sacrifices associated with work, in union with your Son Jesus Christ, who redeemed human work from the yoke of sin and restored it to its original dignity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Son

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• The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

  Adam Smith

  Business, Real, Men

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.5.

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• It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

  John Stuart Mill

  Technology, Invention, Made

  John Stuart Mill, Jonathan Riley (1998). “Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism”, p.129, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Mine is the horny hand of toil.

  John Singer Sargent

  Hands, Horny, Mines

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• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

  Livy

  Ties, Pleasure, Natural

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book V, section 4,

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• It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Two, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1860). “Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery”, p.234

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