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#endeavour

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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

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


#endeavour #hard #i #i think #mean

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.


John Chrysostom


#divine #effect #endeavour #excluded #indeed

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


#even #evil #false #never #opinion

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.


Johannes Vilhelm Jensen


#during #endeavoured #evolution #evolutionary #half

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.


Giles Gilbert Scott


#case #church #delicate #endeavour #every

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.


Richard Steele


#i #look #me #morality #oblige

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.


Edward Jenner


#beneficial #endeavour #essentially #further #hope

I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire.


Thomas Blood


#endeavour #i #life #my life #sire

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






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