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  • But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

    Yield   Hands   Moral  
    Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

    Ambition   Blood   Steel  
    Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.18, 谷月社
  • I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.

    Children   Men   Honor  
  • Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

    Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.152
  • Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.

    Richard Clarke Cabot (1914). “What Men Live by: Work, Play, Love, Worship”
  • And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

    Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

    Time   Lying   Philosophy  
  • Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

    Writing   Order   Sweat  
  • The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

    Time   Moving   Men  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

    Mind   Earth   Treasure  
    Margaret Fuller (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.370, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. . . . . Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

    Life   Beautiful   Dream  
    "Desiderata" (1927).
  • I come from a minimum wage working world, as we all did for at least some part of our lives, and that is never out of my rearview. I've never forgotten how much your feet hurt after you've stood on them for like 12 hours. And how the drudgery of a job you hate craps on your entire life; how you treat other people, how you treat yourself, and it really was getting to me.

    Hurt   Jobs   Hate  
  • I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.

    Girl   Memories   Writing  
    Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”
  • Many people in the throes of suffering, disappointment, and despair, feel utterly stuck in their circumstances. They see no hope beyond their day-to-day drudgery of disability routines; but when hurting families place themselves under the shower of God's mercy, suddenly the clouds part. They realize there's hope, life, and even joy beyond their suffering.

    Source: www.biblegateway.com
  • I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

    "Computers draw a new chapter in comics". Interview with Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2009.
  • Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

    Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.27, e-artnow
  • School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

    School   Facts   Compare  
    Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia, 27 February (1936)
  • There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

    Perseverance   Art   Pain  
    Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always live

    Artist   Wife   Saint  
    Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.58, Northwestern University Press
  • My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

    Done   Best Work   Feels  
  • I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

    Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”
  • A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.

    Law   Rooms   Action  
    'The Elixir', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).
  • Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of our homes, the order and serenity of our minds, the spirit of patience and tender mercy in our hearts. Then will even the merest drudgery of duty cease to humble us, when we transfigure it by the glory of our own spirit.

    Home   Heart   Humble  
    James Martineau (1844). “Endeavors After the Christian Life: A Volume of Discourses”, p.37
  • Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

    Work   Self   Toil  
    Mortimer Jerome Adler (1984). “Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society”, MacMillan Publishing Company
  • Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

    Book   Boring   Notes  
  • Do you have a passion for what you do and do you love what you do? If you don't, then it can be drudgery, it can be hard, it can be work. But when you find something that you enjoy a lot, then you're more willing to sacrifice a lot of things in order to be successful as a teacher.

    "Noah's interview with Coach Tubby Smith". Woodbury Interview, www.woodburybulletin.com. July 18, 2007.
  • Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fearless and undaunted. Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities. You can but die, if you make the attempt; we shall certainly die if you do not. The Americans have practised nothing but head-work these 200 years, and we have done their drudgery. And is it not high time for us to imitate their examples, and practise head-work too, and keep what we have got, and get what we can?

    Men   Rights   Years  
  • Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told - sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.

    Dream   Style   Progress  
    "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 77-78), 1964.
  • Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M.D. degree, could possibly make a good psychoanalyst; so he preferred to look for young analysts among the writers, the lawyers, the mothers of families, those who had chosen human contact. But in their economic wisdom, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (and New York) overruled him.

    Mother   New York   Men  
    Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (pp. 145-146), 1956.
  • Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!

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