 The law of nature is, that a certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good, of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it.  John Ruskin: A Study - Page 78by Robert Percival Downes - 1890 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George W. Rine - English language - 1908 - 324 pages
...watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and stroke it merely to show that you have one. 9. If you want knowledge you must toil for it if food...toil for it and if pleasure you must toil for it. Toil is the law. 10. The sky was cloudless the. sun shone out bright and warm the songs of birds and... | |
 | Deseret Sunday School Union - Child rearing - 1908 - 232 pages
...Surroundings of a Child at Work is of Greater Importance Than the Mere Earning of Money. Ruskin has said, "If you want knowledge, you must toil for it ; if...toil for it ; and if pleasure, you must toil for it ; toil is the law." And Smiles says, "All that is great in man comes through work." As academic truths... | |
 | American poetry - 1909 - 136 pages
...music makes him smart; Jest keep your bow a-swingin', An' play him from your heart. BOSTON "HERALD." IF you want knowledge you must toil for it; if food,...toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes by toil and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to... | |
 | Cheerfulness - 1909 - 136 pages
...music makes him smart; Jest keep your bow a-swingin', An' play him from your heart. BOSTON "HEBALD." IF you want knowledge you must toil for it; if food,...toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes by toil and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to... | |
 | James Terry White - Character - 1909 - 132 pages
...toiling upward in the night. — LONGFELLOW. 8. If you want knowledge you must toil for it; if good you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love his work... | |
 | Deaf - 1914 - 894 pages
...intervals. Let us all be on the watch for anything that can help us in this matter. Ruskin \vrote : "If you want knowledge you must toil for it; if food,...toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it." When you are in no way to blame, can you lose without flinching, without murmuring. without showing... | |
 | 1912 - 742 pages
...head, doesn't he?" Author faints. ^ Nature, when she adds difficulties, adds brains. — Emerson. * * * If you want knowledge you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; if pleasure, you must toil for it; toil is the law. — Ruskin. 7 THE GREGG WRITER Educational Correspondence... | |
 | Andrew Wheatley Edson, Mary Elizabeth Laing - Readers - 1913 - 272 pages
...plowshare or spade; To read, to think, to love, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy. If you want knowledge you must toil for it; if food,...toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes by toil and not by selfindulgence and indolence. When one gets to love... | |
 | Iva Luella Myers Webber - Commercial correspondence - 1913 - 188 pages
...fell paused again then darted down the valley. 18. If you want knowledge you must toil for it if good you must toil for it and if pleasure you must toil for it. 19. When a man's busy leisure Strikes him as a wonderful pleasure Faith and at leisure once is he Straightway... | |
 | Edwin Osgood Grover - Happiness - 1916 - 64 pages
...happiness, though no human heart should ever share in its joy. — Charles Kingsley * F you want knowledge, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets... | |
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