Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least… — John Constable Copy Share Image
In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural… — Colin Welland Copy Share Image
A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their… — Gavin Douglas Copy Share Image
I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness,… — Peter London Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the… — Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavor to wear as much… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour,… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Achievement is connected with action & honesty in endeavour.Resultant success acts as catalyst to work more hard & to keep moving.There may… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Mostly I've been inspired by my mother. She is extremely driven and always makes every endeavour sound exciting. I think most of… — Christopher Masterson Copy Share Image
