Labours Quotes

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. — Francis Bacon
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… — Samuel Johnson
The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we… — Alphonsus Liguori
I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on… — Edward Victor Appleton
[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of… — Augustus De Morgan
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and… — Henry Ward Beecher
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and… — Adam Sedgwick
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… — Samuel Johnson
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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… — Samuel Johnson
How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single… — Andrew Marvell
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.… — Anthony Trollope
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the… — John Smith
To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of… — Kamala Markandaya
Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of… — Juvenal
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various… — William Kingdon Clifford
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the… — Joseph Howe
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface. — Victor Hugo
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times… — Humphry Davy
The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all. — Karl Barth

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