Famous quotes containing the words labor, condition and/or application:
“His Labor is a Chant
His Idlenessa Tune
Oh, for a Bees experience
Of Clovers, and of Noon!”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“We will not be imposed upon by this vast application of forces. We believe that most things will have to be accomplished still by the application called Industry. We are rather pleased, after all, to consider the small private, but both constant and accumulated, force which stands behind every spade in the field. This it is that makes the valleys shine, and the deserts really bloom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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