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contrives

«A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.»
«Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.»
«The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.»
«In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.»
«The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic»
«How can you contrive to write so even?»
«There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.»
«If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.»
«Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!»