No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him ; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil I The busy world shoves angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo set. The poetical works - Page 144by James Russell Lowell - 1904Full view - About this book
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...Utopia at once ; But better almost be at work in sin, Than in a brute inaction browse and sleep. 10 No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born...hands of toil ! The busy world shoves angrily aside 15 The man who stands with arms akimbo set, Until occasion tells him what to do ; And he who waits... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...Utopia at once ; But better almost be at work in sin, Than in a brute inaction browse and sleep. 10 No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born...withal, for those who will ; And blessed are the horny hand's of toil ! The busy world shoves angrily aside 15 The man who stands with arms akimbo set, Until... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...Utopia at once; But better almost be at work in sin, l' Than in a brute inaction browse and sleep. 10 No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him ; there is always work, M * And tools to work withal, for those who will; The busy world shoves angrily aside 15 The man who... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...Halcyons— brooding on a summer sea. No man — ia born into the world, whose work— Is not horn ч-ittt him ; there is always work, — And tools— to work withal, for those who i«u ANGER, RAGE, FURY, 4TI. Imply excitement or violent action : when h atr e and displeasure rise... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the steady growth of trutn. We cannot bring Utopia at once; But better, almost, be at work in sin, Than in a brute...work Is not born with him ; there is always work, And touls to work withal, for those who will ; And blessed are the horny hands of toil ! The busy world... | |
| Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...cannot bring Utopia at once ; But better almost be at work in sin, Than in a brute inaction drowse and sleep. No man is born into the world, whose work...work withal, for those who will ; And blessed are tho horny hands of toil ! The busy world shoves angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo set... | |
| Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1896 - 936 pages
...friendless, almost liopeless. It is hard, after once getting out of a corner, to get back into one. "No man is born into the world whose work Is not born...work, And tools to work withal, For those who will." So, according to the old proverb, "We must find something for ourselves to do, •or satan will find... | |
| Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...its own increase, And hears, while sowing outward fields, The harvest-soug of inward peace. Warrant. No man is born into the world whose work Is not born...who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil 1 LOWELL. Strength and wisdom only flower When we toil for all our kind. Labor is rest from the sorrows... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1866 - 340 pages
...be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the steady growth of truth. We cannot bring Utopia by force ; But better, almost, be at work in sin ;...who will ; And blessed are the horny hands of toil I The busy world shoves angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo set, Until occasion tells... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 pages
...be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the steady growth of truth. We cannot bring Utopia by force ; But better, almost, be at work in sin,...who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil I The busy world shoves angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo set. Until occasion tells... | |
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