Labour

Famous quotes containing the word labour:

“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
—Thomas Browne (1605–1682)

“Measure not the work
Until the day’s out and the labour done,
Then bring your gauges.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)