Word: toil
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Where thou didst toil, like Ruth in times gray-olden...
...rather Charles, - no Indian stream e'er stooped to white man's toil...
...deteriorate, and result in hurry and confusion, which seldom succeed, even under favorable circumstances. Foreigners notice especially the fast way in which our business men get through life. As though the fund of energy from which they draw were inexhaustible, they overwork the mind by continuous and intense toil; driving through life with an anxious, careworn look, and without consideration, giving themselves up to labor, so that middle age finds them with the work of life accomplished; worn out, and unable to obtain enjoyment from the pleasures which might be theirs. Among one class of students an idea prevails which...
...toil and trouble...