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The end of labor is to gain leisure.                                      -Aristotle

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.                                      —Aristotle

God give me work, till my life shall end / And life, till my work is done.               —Epitaph of Winifred Holtby

A mind always employed is always happy.  This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.                  —Thomas Jefferson

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.       —Anatole France

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.  It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.         —Adam Smith

Without labor nothing prospers.                                       —Sophocles

Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.  —Marc Chagall

God sells us all things at the price of labor.    —Leonardo da Vinci

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. 

—Henry van Dyke

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.      —Geoffrey Norman

“I have no more than twenty acres of ground,” he replied, “the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils — boredom, vice, and want.”           —Voltaire

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.      —Pablo Picasso

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless.                                             —Charles Simmons

Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.         —Galen

It is better to wear out than to rust out.     —Richard Cumberland

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. 

—Thomas A. Edison

It is better to wear out than to rust out.     —Richard Cumberland

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