#endeavour

I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire. ↗

— Thomas Blood

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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

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

#nature

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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We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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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

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