Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

I am who I am, and I can't change that. It's not something I've labored over.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

After a long, labored sigh, I said, "She was really happy when I got there. I'm pretty sure she was suicidal when I left.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years one thousand pages of prose. Now I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance ' on the other hand was written and recorded in only four months so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.