18 Metaphors for toiling

Those who knew him best, affirmed that this Mr. Toil was a very worthy character, and that he had done more good, both to children and grown people, than anybody else in the world.

"Toil and weariness are the effects of vanity: when a man has formed a design of excelling others in merit, he is disquieted by their advances, and leaves nothing unattempted, that he may step before them: this occasions a thousand unreasonable emotions, which justly bring their punishment along with them.

Toil and patience had been the handmaidens of the fecundity of the soil.

Love's toil, I know, is little cost; Love's perjury is light sin; But souls that lose what I have lost, What have they left to win?'" "What, indeed?"

But literary toil was the occupation for which nature had designed him.

Toil, toil, toil Life is labor and love: Live, love and labor is then our song, Till we lay down our toils for the resting throng, With our Architect above.

Thenah then, what toil would not be play-day for the sake of Halcombe Dike?

Ceaseless toil Must be the lot of him who with his hands Supports the canopy that shields his subjects.

Twelve miles of walking after a week's toil in the mill was a very small offering to put before so worshipful a divinity.

Toils and dangers are the trials of the soul.

Our pleasing Toil will then be soon o'erpaid, And thou, in Wonder lost, shalt view my Fair, Admire each Feature of the lovely Maid, Her artless Charms, her Bloom, her sprightly Air, VI.

That Saguntum might be taken, what dangers, what toils were for eight months undergone!

Sometimes in the evening he would throw up his arms, yawn wearily, and declare that so much toil with such paltry results was a heart-breaking thing.

Since life is a thorny and difficult path Where toil is the portion of man, We all should endeavor, while passing along, To make it us smooth as we can.

The toil of thirty years is now complete, Record sublime of many a warlike feat, Written midst toil and trouble, but the strain Awakens every heart, and will remain A lasting stimulus to glorious deeds; For even the bashful maid, who kindling reads, Becomes a warrior.

If the poor and humble toil that we may have food, must not the high and glorious toil for him, in return, that he may have light and guidance, freedom, immortality?these two, in all their degrees, I honor; all else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow whither it listeth.

But heart-breaking toil is not the only qualification for speaking.

So leave at the door when the toiling is o'er All the burdens of worktime behind, And just be a dad to your girl or your lad A dad of the rollicking kind.

18 Metaphors for  toiling