Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing.