Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.
The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.
All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.
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