Labour

Famous quotes containing the word labour:

    “Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalms 90:10.

    The Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    “Work apace, apace, apace, apace;
    Honest labour bears a lovely face;”
    —Thomas Dekker (1572?–1632?)