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It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring
considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.
It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring
considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will read more
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
- Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
- Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),
Our fruitless labours mourn,
And only rich in barren fame return.
Our fruitless labours mourn,
And only rich in barren fame return.
Not all the labor of the earth
Is done by hardened hands.
Not all the labor of the earth
Is done by hardened hands.
On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.
On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less read more
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real read more
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
