Quotes of Labored - somelinesforyou

“ The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ I started at the top and worked my way down. ”

- Orson Welles

“ When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin. ”

- James Woods

“ I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. ”

- Michelangelo

“ When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. ”

- Confucius

“ We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few, With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too. ”

- Toy Matinee

“ The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value. ”

- Lord Clarendon

“ Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. ”

- Leigh Hunt

“ Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best. ”

- C. H. Parkhurst

“ In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. ”

- Joseph De Maistre

“ He types his labored column — weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. ”

- Robertson Davies

“ Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. ”

- Socrates

“ The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. ”

- Bible

“ There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief. ”

- Thomas Howard
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