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“As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.”

“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.”

Men May Doe Running Dies Evil Causes Community Moral Risk Source Disease Losing Labor Madness Wine Species Preserves Poison Disorder Idleness Quarrels Brutes Vigor Degrade Aversion

Author:Francois Fenelon

“He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.”

Knows May Pain Pleasure Labor Relaxation Idleness

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.”

Humans May Littles Human Beings Genius Understood Labor Chess Enterprise Pastime

Author:George Steiner

“In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.”

Thinking May Art Real Eye Practice Industry Labor Assuming Jealous Disguise Employed Idleness Shuffle

Book:The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn what is in the world, and not having your minds riveted - yes, I may say riveted - on the cross of Christ, you will go and return in vain...Let your minds be centered on your missions, and labor earnestly to bring souls to Christ.”

Ifs World Mind Heart May Soul Christ Goes On Return Labor Crosses Missions Vain Lightness Frivolity

Author:Brigham Young

“We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.”

Ifs Needs Humans May Literature Process Human Beings Simple Known Labor Genre Historian Peculiar Legends Heroic Rescue Textbooks

Book:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History