God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.
The war being waged against the radical imagination, particularly around young people, is just startling. Young people are laboring under a burden of debt that so ties them to a survivalist mode of existence that it's impossible for them to dream anymore. Trying to recognize what the forces are that actually squelch the imagination is a lot more interesting to me than people who go and "find themselves" because they're no longer on the grid.
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.
True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.
Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.
To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered propertyless, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice.
I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.
I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor
It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring. . . a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many. . . Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.
I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.
