troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come
to the spring, they rise up and meet you.--FELTON.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that
he knows no more.--COWPER.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are
willing to pay the price.--JUVENAL.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace
of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.--BISHOP HALL.
There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a
knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except
at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.--LADY BLESSINGTON.
The sure foundations of the State are laid in knowledge, not in
ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning,
which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the
demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy
and ruin.--G.W. CURTIS.
LABOR.--Labor is one of the great elements of society,--the great
substantial interest on which we all stand.--DANIEL WEBSTER.
Hard workers are usually honest. Industry lifts them above temptation.
--BOVEE.
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind; and hence arises the
happiness of the poor.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who
disgrace labor.--U.S. GRANT.
If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible
substitute for it.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.
It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy, you can
hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the
blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the
friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices.
--BEECHER.
Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.--HORACE MANN.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest.
He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it
in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.
--J.G. HOLLAND.
Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.--CARLYLE.
Love labor; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for
physic.--WILLIAM PENN.
Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.--BOVEE.
Labor is rest--from the sorrows that greet us;
Rest from all petty vexations that meet us,
Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us,
Rest from world-sirens t
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