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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
