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Labour . A nation which labours, and takes care of the fruits of labour, would be rich and happy, though there were no gold in the universe. {Ruskin.}
Labour . Bodily labour alleviates the pains of the mind, and hence arises the happiness of the poor. - Le travail du corps délivre des peines de l'esprit; et c'est ce qui rend les pauvres heureux {La Rochefoucauld.}
Labour . By honesty and labour. - Probitate et labore {Motto.}
Labour . By labour and honour. - Labore et honore {Motto.}
Labour . By labour you will conquer. - Labore vinces {Motto.}
Labour . By labour. - Labore {Motto.}
Labour . By prayer and labour. - Orando laborando {Motto.}
Labour . By that (one negligence) all his labour was lost. - Ibi omnis / Effusus labor {Virgil.}
Labour . Clamorous labour knocks with its hundred hands at the golden gate of the morning. {Newman Hall.}
Labour . Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius. {La Bruyère.}
 
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Cibation : n. The act of taking food.; n. The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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