A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she rememberet...h no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a wonderful, but neglected precision in these words. The old English noun "travel" (in the sense of a journey) was origin...ally the same word as "travail" (meaning "trouble," "work," or "torment").... Significantly, too, the word "tour" in "tourist" was derived by back-formation from the Latin "tornus," which in turn came from the Greek word for a tool describing a circle. The traveler, then was working at something; the tourist was a pleasure-seeker. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It breaks his heart that kings must murder still, That all his hours of travail here for men... Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white peace That he may sleep upon his hill again?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in... travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training in... give and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spirit ... the consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new ...and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »