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He chooses best, whose labor entertains Hs vacant fancy most; the toil you hate Fatigues you soon, and scarce improves your limbs. - John Armstrong The body * * * Much toil demands; the lean elastic less. While winter chills the blood and binds the veins, No labors are too hard; by those you 'scape The slow diseases of the torpid year, Endless to name. - John Armstrong 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 Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Toil says the proverb, is the sire of fame. - Euripides Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection. - Titus Livy And blessed are the horny hands of toil. - James Russell Lowell 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 (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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