Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense. — Edward Rutledge Copy Share Image
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Only let it be trust in God, not in man, not in circumstances, not in any of your own exertions, but real… — George Muller Copy Share Image
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Without a twich of exertion, Redd sealed his lips with glue. "Who wants to kill him?" The Cat raised a paw. Siren… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
