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• By how much unexpected, by so much
  We must awake endeavour for defence;
  For courage mounteth with occasion.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Unexpected, Awake

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.32, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that a scientist is a man who turns the handle of discovery; for at every level of endeavour scientific research is a passionate undertaking and the Promotion of Natural Knowledge depends above all on a sortee into what can be imagined but is not yet known.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

  Anne Bronte

  Humble, Names, Trying

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte, Preface, 2nd edition, July 12, 1848.

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• Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Philosophy, Character, Mean

  "The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. viii), 1962.

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• ...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

  T. H. White

  Germs, Corruption, Ends

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• Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Opposites, Tragedy, Investing

  "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich August von Hayek, (Introduction), 1944.

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• 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

  Struggle, Years, Cracks

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• It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Views, Desire

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.197, Harvard University Press

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• Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not easy to unravel the mutually reinforcing motives of selflessness and self-interest. All that can safely be said is that most members of the royal family have difficulty distinguishing between concern about society, concern about the social order and concern about what best to do so they can remain at the top of it.

  David Cannadine

  Self, Order, Cynical

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• Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

  A. A. Gill

  Reality, Blood, Hands

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• Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

  Robert Schumann

  Play, Pieces, Easy

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.8

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• If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.

  William Chillingworth

  Men, Errors, Atheism

  William Chillingworth (1820). “The works of William Chillingworth, 1: in three volumes”, p.111

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• Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

  Salman Khurshid

  People, Young, Humans

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• It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Ideas, Perfection

  "The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D". Book by John Hawkins, 1787.

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• Success supposes endeavour.

  Jane Austen

  Jane Austen (2010). “Emma: The Jane Austen Illustrated Edition”, p.12, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Heart, Light

  Hermann Hesse, “Stages”

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• The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• And I read the moral--A brave endeavour
  To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,
  Is better than life with love forever,
  And love is the sweetest thing on earth.

  James Jeffrey Roche

  Love Is, Brave, Forever

  James Jeffrey Roche, “Sir Hugo's Choice”

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• No endeavour is in vain;
  Its reward is in the doing.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rewards, Vain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.72

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• Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

  Florence Nightingale

  Unseen, Holiness, Divine

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.578, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Real, Remembrance

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Real, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

  Karl Popper

  Mean, Science, Judgement

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• A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, People, Hatred

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• Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

  Angela Cartwright

  Photography, Art, Passion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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