Definition of Toil

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Definition of Toil

Toil

A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.

To weary; to overlabor.

To labor; to work; -- often with out.

Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.

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Toil Quotations

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Henry David Thoreau

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor Hugo

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

Toil Translations

toil in Latin is molior, operor, labor laboris, laboro
toil in Spanish is afanar

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