Endeavor Quotes - Page 38

• Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Book, Character

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• The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

  Gustave de Molinari

  Evil, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Prayer

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• How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

  Henry George

  Children, Men, Class

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Wind, Storm

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.118

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