#endeavour

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#any #endeavour #failure #just #part

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds. ↗

— William Bligh

#bay #endeavouring #get #into #prevented

I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire. ↗

— Thomas Blood

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First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety. ↗

— David Brainerd

#endeavour #first #life #practise #resolve

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#appealing #approach #dear #dissolution #endeavouring

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#any #doing #endeavour #every #god

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#am #aware #because #endeavour #extent

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#conformity #difference #ease #endeavoured #especially

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

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I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour. ↗

— Stephanie Rice

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