“God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.”
1950s, The Chance for Peace (1953)
Context: These proposals spring, without ulterior motive or political passion, from our calm conviction that the hunger for peace is in the hearts of all people -- those of Russia and of China no less than of our own country. They conform to our firm faith that God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
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“Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 412.
Source: Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
“Toil is the law of life and its best fruit.”
The Ode of perfect Years, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Maxims
“First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.”
As quoted in Leaping Souls : Rabbi Menachem Mendel And The Spirit Of Kotzk (1993) by Chaim Feinberg
Variant translation: Man must "guard himself and his uniqueness, and not imitate his fellow … for initially man was created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.
The National Gain, §20, 1765.