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“Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.”

Rich Return Fame Labor Labour Mourn Barren

Book:The Odyssey of Homer

Source: The Odyssey of Homer

“If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn what is in the world, and not having your minds riveted - yes, I may say riveted - on the cross of Christ, you will go and return in vain...Let your minds be centered on your missions, and labor earnestly to bring souls to Christ.”

Ifs World Mind Heart May Soul Christ Goes On Return Labor Crosses Missions Vain Lightness Frivolity

Author:Brigham Young

“Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.”

“A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.”

Self Night Morning Sacrifice Duty Return Thousand Labor Dear Affection Crowds Wheels Endurance Procession

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.”

May Stills Hard Games Sports History Fate Blood Subjects Hard Work Return Victory Discipline Gains Labor Blind Rewards Metaphor Weather Farming Seductive Quirks Visualizing

Author:Garrison Keillor

“I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.”

May Play Order Greater Return Labor Zest

Author:Plato

“Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.”

Pleasure Results Effort Beauty Seeing Fashion Missing Return Labor Surface Forfeit

Author:Roderick E. Stevens

“The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.”

Way Lying Night Easy Views Hell Sky Return Labor Tasks Gates Smooth Cheerful Descent Auras Gates Of Hell

Book:The Aeneid:

Source: The Aeneid:

“The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.”

Return Gratitude Demand Goodness Labor Supreme Instance Peculiar Signals Piety

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”

“If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.”

People Ifs World Giving Real Ability Poor Poverty Seeing Missing Return Labor Real World Illiterate

Author:Muhammad Yunus