It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I have spent years toiling away in the relative solitude of my chambers, with just my law clerks, in isolation. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams;… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seems careless of having anything… — John Clare Copy Share Image
When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play… — Zinedine Zidane Copy Share Image
In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is… — Jack Lovelock Copy Share Image
The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory. — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Men are four; He who knows and knows not that he knows. He is asleep; wake him. He who knows not and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, Come to me and rest. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth The Sabbath resting comes, Gathering the sons of toil and care Back to their peaceful homes;… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
“Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
