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Endeavour Quotes (page 2)

As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive. Roberto Bolano
Charles Dickens quote: "Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any..."
Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it. Charles Dickens
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Excellent friend! how sincerely did you love me, and endeavour..."
Excellent friend! how sincerely did you love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
May I ask you what these questions tend?''Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.''And what is your success?'She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly. Jane Austen
The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips. If so, it never reached them. Charles Dickens
The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish, and wicked practice, of profane cursing and swearing (a Vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety, and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation,... George Washington
(James Joyce, in conversation with Carl Jung:)"Literary artists know more about the human mind than you fellers have a hope in hell of knowing. Ha. My craft is ebbing. I am yung and easily freudened. One of these days I'll show the lot of you what the unconscious mind is really like. I don't need any of you. In a sense I am Freud."Jung looked gloomily guilty at the name. "Yes?"What's Freud in English?"Joy."Joy and Joyce. There's little enough difference. Except that I add C and E for Creative... Anthony Burgess
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. John Stuart Mill
Steve Fossett quote: "This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and..."
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour. Steve Fossett
Roddy Doyle quote: "Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part..."
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. Roddy Doyle
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. Orson Pratt
Alexander Pope quote: "Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in..."
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. Alexander Pope
Elbert Hubbard quote: "Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is..."
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. Elbert Hubbard
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. Laurence Stern
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them. Laurence Stern

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