What makes this Generation of Vermin so very Prolifick, is the indefatigable Diligence with which they apply themselves to their B...usiness. A Man does not undergo more watchings and fatigues in a Campaign, than in the Course of a vicious Amour. As it is said of some Men, that they make their Business their Pleasure, these Sons of Darkness may be said to make their Pleasure their Business. They might conquer their corrupt Inclinations with half the Pains they are at in gratifying them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I claim ... that there is a feminine as well as a masculine side to truth ...That as the man is more noble in reason, so the woman... is more quick in sympathy. That as he is indefatigable in pursuit of abstract truth, so is she in caring for the interests by the way--striving tenderly and lovingly that not one of the least of these "little ones" should perish. That while we not unfrequently see women who reason, we say, with the coolness and precision of a man, and men as considerate of helplessness as a woman, still there is a general consensus of mankind that the one trait is essentially masculine and the other as peculiarly feminine. That both are needed to be worked into the training of children, in order that our boys may supplement their virility by tenderness and sensibility, and our girls may round out their gentleness by strength and self-reliance. That, as both are alike necessary in giving symmetry to the individual, so a nation or a race will degenerate into mere emotionalism on the one hand, or ballism on the other, if dominated by either exclusively; lastly, and most emphatically, that the feminine factor can have its proper effect only through woman's development and education so that she may fitly and intelligently stamp her force on the forces of her day, and add her modicum to the riches of the world's thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals ... which is a lust of the mind..., that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would ...she have set in order that huge littered empire of the one, and with indefatigable painstaking picked the peck of pickled peppers for the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the Arab proverb says, "The dog barks and the caravan passes". After having dropped this quotation, Mr. Norpois stopped to judg...e the effect it had on us. It was great; the proverb was known to us: it had been replaced that year among men of high worth by this other: "Whoever sows the wind reaps the storm", which had needed some rest since it was not as indefatigable and hardy as, "Working for the King of Prussia".LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended--... Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord Put me to witness much for many years And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection--even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano--is what alone... gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe.... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal,... yet how trifling the use we make of it! It only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic servant!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »