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, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Without labor nothing prospers. ~Sophocles
God sells us all things at the price of labor. ~Leonardo da Vinci
Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
Samual Gempers, founder and president of the American Federation of Labor
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