Labour Quotes (7)

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
In John Timbs (ed.), Laconics; or, The Best Words of the Best Authors (1929), 156.
See also:  |  Capacity (5)  |  Criticism (16)  |  Genius (53)  |  Health (61)  |  Practice (4)  |  Science (444)  |  Trade (2)  |  Wit (5)

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour; nothing is ever to be attained without it.
The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds? (1842), 32.
See also:  |  Ability (11)  |  Deficiency (2)  |  Deny (2)  |  Effort (6)  |  Talent (12)

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
In Eberhard Zeidler, Applied Functional Analysis: main principles and their applications (1995), 225.
See also:  |  Discovery (166)  |  Mind (116)  |  Notation (2)  |  Reduce (3)

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
Lecture 'Discoveries and Inventions', (1860) in Discoveries and Inventions (1915).
See also:  |  Improvement (7)  |  Workmanship (2)

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
In Samuel Johnson and Arthur Murphy, The works of Samuel Johnson (1837), 237.
See also:  |  Child (39)  |  History (61)  |  Infancy (2)  |  Knowledge (330)  |  Remain (3)  |  World (45)

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Seneca
In Henry Southgate (ed.), Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862), 340.
See also:  |  Devote (2)  |  Education (118)  |  Strive (3)  |  Talent (12)  |  Toil (3)

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins...
'A Free Man's Worship' (1903). In Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (1967), 107.
See also:  |  Achievement (33)  |  Atom (85)  |  Belief (37)  |  Death (91)  |  Devotion (3)  |  Extinction (27)  |  Fear (24)  |  Feeling (2)  |  Genius (53)  |  Growth (15)  |  Hope (14)  |  Inspiration (8)  |  Love (29)  |  Origin (5)  |  Solar System (19)  |  Thought (65)  |  Universe (138)

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