George Santayana Quotes About Effort
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
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Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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