#endeavour

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

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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

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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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And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

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For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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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

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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

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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

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