#laborious

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ↗

— Anais Nin

#beings #complete #developments #few #fragment

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. ↗

— Confucius

#before #example #go #laborious #people

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. ↗

— John Lancaster Spalding

#doubt #earnest #faith #found #half

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#american life #artful #conceived #effect #fulfillment

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#beautiful #beautiful way #exchanging #harmony #laborious

I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious. ↗

— Katie Hoff

#great #i #just #laborious #look

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#accomplished #daily #go #great #laboriously

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#barely #been #each #finished #firmly

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#curiosity #diverted #emulation #great #knowledge

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#climate #constitution #either #existence #falling