Without labor nothing prospers.


Sophocles

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The dead alone can feel no touch of spite.
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Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital
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Leave me to my own absurdity.
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In his den the monster keep, Giver of eternal sleep.
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As Washington prospers, workers suffer.
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Learning without thought is labor lost.
CONFUCIUS
The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
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Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Currently, we can't survive without migrant labor in agriculture.
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In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.
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Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love.
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I'm nothing without God.
TARAJI P. HENSON
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it
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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.
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If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.
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Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Without obsession, life is nothing.
JOHN WATERS
Nothing has meaning without love
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Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.
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Nature lures men with few crumbs of pleasure, so he can labor in pain’s quarry without measure.
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The game isn't over yet, ... but clearly I would say the score is Northwest 1, [labor] nothing.
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HENRY GEORGE
No good without bad. No bad without good. No nothing without something. We think we are something, t...
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Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade, My Castara lives unknown To n...
WILLIAM HABINGTON
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, wit...
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It's not right. The United States is nothing without immigrants. The United States is nothing withou...
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The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wi...
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Imagine: you could say nothing, do nothing, eat nothing, touch nothing, love nothing without the oth...
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Without commitment, nothing changes.
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Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without ...
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Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
PAUL CLAUDEL
Without her, I'd be nothing.
ASHLEY MARBLE
Nothing is achieved without toil.
UNKNOWN
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Nothing exists without its opposite.
CHRIS CRUTCHER
Imagination means nothing without doing.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Without friends you have nothing!
STEPHEN RICHARDS
Without creativity you are nothing.
KENDRIC BOYKIN
Peace means nothing without freedom.
DEREK LANDY
Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
DOUG HORTON
Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
PROVERB
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
IDA B. WELLS
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Humanity must need to continue because humanity is about humans and humans are nothing without human...
ZAMAN ALI
There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.
ROBERT FISK
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
CATHERINE THE GREAT
Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever ...
ANDRE GIDE
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has eve...
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Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants...
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ANE KRSTEVSKA
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Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand.
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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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Talent without working hard is nothing.
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One mouth doth nothing without another.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Success is dependent on effort.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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A human being is only breath and shadow.
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To touch the quick.
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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
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For God hates utterly
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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Time eases all things.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
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No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
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Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
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Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
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The only crime is pride.
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A short saying oft contains much wisdom
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No honest man will argue on every side
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There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Time is a kindly God
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Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
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It is God's giving if we laugh or weep
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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No man loves life like him that's growing old
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God's dice always have a lucky roll
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Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends
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Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
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It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
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