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«Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards.»
Author: Charles E. Popplestone | Keywords: plod, plodding, plods, stick to
«The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, / The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me.»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: curfew, homeward, knell, knells, lea, lowing, parting, plod, plodding, plods, ploughman, The Lea, tolls
«Plodding wins the race.»
Author: Aesop (Author, Fabulist) | Keywords: plod, plodding, plods
«ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this:The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: aims, composition, cur, curs, dejection, elegy, employing, fiddle-faddle, fiddle, fiddled, fiddles, fiddling, foretell, foretells, foretold, herd, homeward, knell, knells, lea, like this, loafing, minor, parting, plod, plodding, plods, somewhat, The Lea, verse, without aim, without humor
«Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: best of them, hesitation, plod, plodding, plods, unbeliever, unbelievers
«No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: faint, plod, plodding, plods
«Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: plod, plodding, plods
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