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Labour Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect…
- Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
- Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered…
- If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be…
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
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- It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to… — Swami Vivekananda
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson
- The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child… — Carol Bellamy
- I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. — Diane Abbott
- I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. — Aneurin Bevan
- Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice… — Edward McKendree Bounds