Their Labours Quotes
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Grace comes immediately to meet some of those who strive, giving them assurance of the earnest of their inheritance (cf. Eph. 1:14), letting them taste… — Gregory Palamas
- What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their… — Charles Lamb
- Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
- Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. As compensation for their labours… — Esther Vilar