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The enormityofthetask[was] just a bit lessformidable than that described in the first chapter of Genesis.
You can't beat the market because it's smarter than you are. Intellectually, the only task is trying to determine what the market is telling you.
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feelit is, before all, to make you see.Thatand no more, and it is everything.
Women have but one task, that of crowning the winner with garlands.
You who desired so muchin vain to ask Yet fed your hunger like an endless task, Dared dignify the labor, bless the quest Achieved that stillness ultimately best, Being, of all, least sought for: Emily, hear!
The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.
My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires, My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Followed false lights; and when their glimpse was gone My pride struck out new sparkles of her own Good life be now my task: my doubts are done; (What more could fright my faith thanThree in One?)
Le bonheur de l'homme n'est pas dans la liberte , mais dans l'acceptation d'un devoir. Man'shappiness doesnot come from freedom but inthe acceptance of a task.
'No love,'quoth he,'but vanity, sets love a task like that.'
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
There is but one task for all For each one life to give. What stands if freedom fall? Who dies if England live?
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Spider, spider, spin Your register and let me sleep a little, Not now in order to end but to begin The task begun so often.
But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.
To be weak is miserable Doing or suffering, but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight.
When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of [the] universe, every phase of present or past lifetherein, has been examined, classified, and coordinatedwith the rest, thenthemissionof sciencewill be completed.What isthisbut saying thatthetaskof science canneverend till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?
Observation is always selective. It needs a chosen object, a definite task, an interest, a point of view, a problem.
I have never been able to decide whether, in mountain exploration, it is the prospect of tackling an unsolved problem, or the performance of the task itself, or the retrospective enjoyment of successful effort, which affords the greatest amount of pleasure.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.
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