The chopper's life is not a life of ease— And yet to those who understand it well There's much about it that doth tend to please Their warm, strong minds, as they such monsters fell.
— from The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Thomas Cowherd
Finally, should he not learn self-sacrifice, since man's life is not a life of ease and enjoyment?
— from Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori
His life is not a life of enjoyment, but of service and of sacrifice.
— from Theosophy and Life's Deeper Problems Being the Four Convention Lectures Delivered in Bombay at the Fortieth Anniversary of the Theosophical Society, December, 1915 by Annie Besant
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