Labours Quotes
52 quotes by 43 authors
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
— Francis Bacon
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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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
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How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single…
— Andrew Marvell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
— Karl Barth
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