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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within. ↗

— Dave Winer

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ↗

— James Bryce

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As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works. ↗

— Jones Very

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Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

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My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. ↗

— Franklin Knight Lane

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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. ↗

— Menander

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