Best Labors Lines
169 Labors quotes by 129 unique authors
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You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist…
— John Kennedy Toole
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The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this…
— Karl Barth
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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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...When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.
— John Kennedy Toole
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Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I…
— Albert Einstein
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All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century…
— C.S. Lewis
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and…
— Jack Kerouac
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Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and…
— Thomas Hardy
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The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is…
— John Gardner
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He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as…
— Neal Shusterman
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The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.
— Bryant H. McGill
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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work…
— Nikola Tesla
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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
— James Bryce
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If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors…
— Henry David Thoreau
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No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
— Charles Sumner
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These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's…
— Confucius
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The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we…
— Eugene Jarecki
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You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more…
— Henry B. Eyring
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It is a remarkable fact that we can never read or hear of the labors which our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ performed, without taking…
— Heber J. Grant
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I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.
— Heber J. Grant
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