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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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Inspirit : v. t. To infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate.

 
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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