Quotations Page 'L'

Don't rely too much on labels.For too often they are fables.

- C.H. Spurged -

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Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe.The fate of many.

- Homer, Lliad -

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Honest labour bears a lovely face.

- Dekker, Patient grissel -

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A man's best friend are his ten fingers.

- Robert Collyer -

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For as labour can not produce without the use of and, denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labour to its own product.

- Henry George, Progress and Proverty -

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Labour makes us insensible to sorrow.

- Cicero -

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Never work without reward, or reward without work.

- Livy, Hist -

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Without labour nothing prospers.

- Sophocles -

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What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh the sun ?

- Old Testament, Ecclesiastes -

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The labour is worthy of his hire.

- New Testament -

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A nation may do without his millionairs and without its capitalists but a nation can never do without its labourers.

- M. Gandhi -

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The labourer is worthy of his reward.

- Timothy -

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Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And phoebus' gins arise.

- Shakespeare, Cymberline -

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Music is the universal language.

- John Wilson -

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In the commerce of speech use only coins of gold and silver.

- Joubert -

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Language is the dress of thought.

- Johnson -

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Language as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. - WebsterToo late, too late ! ye cannot enter now.

- Tennyson -

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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

- Byron, Don Juan -

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And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

- Goldsmith, The Deserted Village -

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