The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.
From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.
Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?
If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron... then you would be right.
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.
The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.
I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.
Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.
I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.
Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.
The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.
When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.
Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.
Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.
Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
And yet, in a superficial sense, it is true that the camera does not "lie": given a chance, it will faithfully render everything within the field of view of the lens and show it precisely as it is.
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.
One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.
It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.
To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.
A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.
Going home must be like going to render an account.
We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.
Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
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