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The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for… — Michelangelo
I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man.… — Pablo Casals
Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it… — Isaac Newton
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in… — Matthew Arnold
An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos… — Peter London
For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the… — Muhammad Asad
We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions. — Jean de la Bruyere
Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she… — Madame de Stael
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who… — William Hazlitt
The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper… — Joseph Conrad
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… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought… — Mohsin Hamid
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… — Franz Liszt
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. — Alexander Pope
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is. — Sylvester Stallone
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance… — Laurence Sterne
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… — Duke of Wellington
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
We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time… — Julian Baggini
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften… — Robert Louis Stevenson
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility… — Ambrose Bierce
Success supposes endeavour. — Jane Austen
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour… — Roberto Bolano
Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly. — Robert Schumann

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