"The literature of the world has exerted its……" — Mark Van Doren

More Exerted Quotes

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• The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in… — Charles Babbage
• I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within… — Immanuel Kant
• When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and… — Herophilos
• The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to… — Thomas Jefferson
• When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence… — Samuel Johnson
• I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but… — Benjamin F. Wade
• Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the… — Yanni
• We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always… — Samuel Johnson
• The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why… — Walter Russell
• Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of… — Charles Lyell
• The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that… — Svante Arrhenius
• First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at… — Henry David Thoreau

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