Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . .… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil,… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of… — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
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