Quotes about toils (16 Quotes)




    Edward and Henry, now the boast of fame,
    And virtuous Alfred, a more sacred name,
    After a life of gen'rous toils endur'd,
    The Gaul subdu'd, or property secur'd,
    Ambition humbled, mighty cities storm'd,
    Or laws establish'd, and the world reform'd;
    Clos'd their long glories with a sigh, to find
    Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!


    They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.





    Mistaken oft, and oft astray,
    It strives to find the narrow way,
    But gropes and toils alone:
    That inner life of strife and tears,
    Of kindling hopes and lowering fears
    To none but God is known.

    While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.


    But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.

    If the appetite alone hath sinned, let it alone fast, and it sufficeth. But if the other members also have sinned, why should they not fast, too.... Let the eye fast from strange sights and from every wantonness, so that that which roamed in freedom in fault-doing may, abundantly humbled, be checked by penitence. Let the ear, blameably eager to listen, fast from tales and rumors, and from whatsoever is of idle import, and tendeth least to salvation. Let the tongue fast from slanders and murmurings, and from useless, vain, and scurrilous words, and sometimes also, in the seriousness of silence, even from things which may seem of essential import. Let the hand abstain from ... all toils which are not imperatively necessary. But also let the soul herself abstain from all evils and from acting out her own will. For without such abstinence the other things find no favor with the Lord.

    It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

    The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.




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