Anxious Toil Quotes

#1. Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#3. As boys going to sea immediately become nautical in speech, walk as if they already had their "sea legs" on, and shiver their timbers on all possible occasions, so I turned military at once, called my dinner my rations, saluted all new comers, and ordered a dress parade that very afternoon.

Louisa May Alcott

#4. The enormous waste of energy that has deliberately been expended on vileness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

Rick Santelli

#6. Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.

Maureen Corrigan

#7. I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

Neil Young

#8. Maybe a map is a good thing / On those days I feel / Like I'm riding a rhino up a mountain.

Susan Browne

#9. Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.

Donna Tartt

#10. Wait for it patiently - annihilation or metamorphosis.

Marcus Aurelius