Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
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Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.
VOLTAIRE Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.
JEFF VANDERMEER Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
...
BEN JONSON Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE Life will make no sense without work.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
ALFRED DE VIGNY Let us not only fall in love, let us live life as if life is our love affair.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
JOHN PATRICK Struggles not only make us into stronger, better and wiser people, they also let us learn more about...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins w...
GEORGE ELIOT 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins w...
GEORGE ELIOT If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, e...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, e...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and f...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the ...
E. M. FORSTER The priviledges we didn't get, let us make sure that those coming after us get it.
Let us clear...
PAUL BAMIKOLE If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his
merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work ha...
RALPH BUNCHE Break the cycle of your damaged life. The only way to make a better life is to change the rhythm thr...
AVINA CELESTE Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by...
OSCAR WILDE By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dr...
VIRGINIA WOOLF 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are w...
WILLIAM COWPER Life is not always easy for anyone of us. Everybody goes through ups and downs in life. Life is not ...
AVIJEET DAS The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE Innocence in Humanity is lost without Justice to heal along the way, to take revenge will only make ...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without g...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Let us save the to-morrows for work
MARK TWAIN Let muggles manage without us!
J.K. ROWLING The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would b...
WERNER HEISENBERG The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to f...
RICHARD BRANSON Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own w...
MOHAMMED ALI BAPIR Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of on...
POPE FRANCIS Life doesn’t happen to me because I don’t let it happen. I’m afraid it won’t happen the only...
CAROL VORVAIN Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains withou...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferr...
MYLES HORTON No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqua...
MITCH ALBOM There is a comfort in the strength of love;'T will make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don't become GREED.
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA Let us live and move in harmony. Let us grow together. Let us cherish the wisdom that we have ac...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
PATTI DAVIS never let anyone let make you feel inferior without your consent
EMILY DICKINSON After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Isn't that great? We can start debating again. We can start theorizing again.
KYLE JOHNSON I had a teacher who loved movies. He had a little theatre called The Flick, and he would let a bunch...
KATHLEEN KENNEDY Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
SITTING BULL I never spoke one Word to him in my Life; yet I love him so dearly, that 'tis impossible I should li...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.
ANTONY STARR Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a ...
RONALD REAGAN Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into i...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Let us be the joy to find the joy
Let us be the love to find the love
Let us be kind to fi...
DEBASISH MRIDHA 'Tis not a life,
'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER "Learn to enjoy life, let those that love you help you, with your own personal challenges. Let their...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Life gives us many gifts that we could hardly imagine. When we let go of preconceptions and witness ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER In life, we must never let a day pass us without being able to answer this simple question, 'what ha...
NERRYMIAH SCIPIO Let go, let life, and enjoy the journey…!
JAMES A. MURPHY 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his bod...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The only way to make sense of it is to use sophisticated Web tools and make sure to follow up with t...
ROBERT HAYES 'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.
CHARLES E. MERRILL The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor fi...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB The way they let me go without a notice, without calling me, that said a lot.
BENGIE MOLINA 17. One of the secrets of successful living is found in the word balance, referring to the avoidance...
JAMES C. DOBSON The only way we can prevail through anything is to work on our music ... it got us here in the first...
ALBERT JR The only way we can prevail through anything is to work on our music ... it got us here in the first...
ALBERT HAMMOND JR You make a difference about your life it's a knock on the head of mind setting your life you see the...
DEMI LOVATO Tis better to have love and lust
Than to let our apparatus rust.
KURT VONNEGUT 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
SAMUEL BUTLER Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world ...
MARGARET MITCHELL The purpose of life is simple. We are only here to make a choice to forever live with God, or foreve...
DANIEL RAY WARING JR. Sometimes our sensitiveness make us insensitive. We think of only our feelings, without giving much ...
MJ CHRISTINE Tis the unexpected that makes life interesting.
ASHLYN CHASE We do not make a profit; we are literally a non-profit enterprise without the tax-exempt status. Dri...
KATY MCKIM Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life...
GRACE GEALEY The only way there can ever be guarantee of absolute peace in life is for us to abolish religion.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let us work joyfully while we have the strength.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes....
ANGELINA JOLIE How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) I... the oracle, see but cannot put into action without your aid. The future is created by all thing...
JOSE ABRAHAM TACTUK NUñEZ The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Without pain,there would be no suffering,without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes.To...
ANGELINA JOLIE Passion with enthusiasm paves the door of success.Strive for success with hard work, it is way to ma...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let us realize that:the privilege to work is a gift,the power to work is a blessing,the love of work...
DAVID O. MCKAY Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
MARC CHAGALL It is a way for us to recognize the heroic actions not only for those who died, but for those who st...
JOSEPH CROWLEY Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us cele...
STEVIE WONDER Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us cele...
SWAMI SIVANANDA 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
HUGH WALPOLE SR. Get leave to work
In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you ar...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
ALBERT CAMUS And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, t...
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