HARVARD SQUARE COMMENTARY
September 1, 2008
Wisdom from Polonius
Labor / Labor Day
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
- - Henry van Dyke - -
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
- - Marc Chagall - -
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
- - Leonardo da Vinci - -
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
- - Thomas Jefferson - -
Without labor nothing prospers.
- - Sophocles - -
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.
It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
- - Adam Smith - -
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day.
It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
- - Bill Dodds - -
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
- - Doug Larson - -
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