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  • In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. -- Horace
  • Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. -- James Madison
  • South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation. -- Tariq Ramadan
  • When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. -- David Brainerd
  • You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man. -- Richard Flanagan
  • At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. -- Henry Bessemer
  • It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends. -- Peter Hook
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  • Sleep is sweet to the labouring man. -- John Bunyan
  • In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. -- Horace
  • In labouring to be concise, I become obscure -- Horace
  • Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea. -- Lucretius
  • My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies. -- William Shakespeare
  • The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world. -- Francis Thompson
  • Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest. -- Richard Harris Barham
  • We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further. -- J. I. Packer
  • I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.... -- William Butler Yeats
  • If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
  • What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best. -- John Lancaster Spalding
  • The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content. -- Simone Weil
  • The labouring man that tills the fertile soil,And reaps the harvest fruit, hath not indeedThe gain, but pain; and if for all his toilHe gets the straw, the lord will have the seed. -- Edward De Vere
  • Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on. -- Asger Jorn
  • Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings. -- Laurie Penny
  • In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed. -- William Cobbett
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