LIFE
IS LABOUR
We
are destined to to do some sort of labour throughout our life. To sit idle is
to commit a sin.
Labour is work, toil, activity,
employment and exertion. It is the mother of one’s luck and prosperity. To shun
labour and spend our time like an idler is to invite poverty.
The
Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) said:
Blessed is the man that has found his
work. One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
Jeremy
Taylor (1613-1667) , a cleric in the Church of England, said:
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of
thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those
emptiness where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy ,
healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all
employments, bodily labour is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for
driving away the Devil.
According
to the American orator and statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852 ): Labour is one
of the great elements of society ---the
great substantial interest on which we all stand. No feudal service, or predial toil, or the
irksome drudgery by one race of mankind subjected, on account of their colour,
to another; but labour, intelligent, manly, independent, thinking and
acting for itself earning its own wages,
accumulating those wages into capital, educating childhood and maintaining worship, claiming the right of the
elective francise, and helping to uphold the great of the State ---that is
American labour.
The
Greek poet Sophocles (495-406 B.C.) said: Without labour nothing prospers.
Finally,
this quote by the French writer and
philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778):
Labour
rids us of three great evils ----irksomeness, vice, and poverty.
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G.R.Kanwal
22 April 2025
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