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Letter "T" » toil
«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.»
«There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives.»
Author: Hamlin Garland
| Keywords:
farmers, ferocious, gild, gilding, gilds, glamour, lighting-up, light up, toil
«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»
Author: Sam Walter Foss
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flowerless, loaf, loaf of bread, suit of clothes, swamps, The Swamp, toil, tread
«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»
«The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.»
«The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Ending,
Literature
| Keywords:
cash, gratification, lastly, One Family, pleasurable, sensible, toil
«The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
followers, Good Time, heroic, human blood, pinch, pinched, pinches, pinching, safety, sentiments, sweat, toil
«The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mankind,
Truth
| Keywords:
agony, ash, atom, chunk, chunks, heap, ponderable, represents, roasting, seeker, The Seekers, toil
«The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.»
«The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd»
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