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RECENT POSTShoc opus, hic labor est
hok O-puhs heek LAW-bor est
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there is trouble, there is toil; there is hard work, there is toil
1825The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4I have presumed to address the adventurere from the dreary mansions of wretchedness and despair, of which the gates are so wonderfully constructed, as to fly open for the reception of strangers, though they are impervious as a rock of adamant to such as are within them:——Facilis descensus Averni: Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis. Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est.—VIRG. AEn. vi. 126.1855The Age of FableFacilis descensus Averni; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est.—Virgil. The descent to Avernus is easy; the gate of Pluto stands open night and day; but to retrace one's steps and return to the upper air, that is the toil, that the difficulty.—Virgil. 1874Edwy the FairAlas, poor boy! his wish was not thus easily to be gratified: he had sinned very deeply—his penance had yet to be accomplished; well has the poet written: 'Facilis descensus Averno . . . . Sed retrograre gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus—hic labor est.'Labels: A. D. Crake, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Bulfinch
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