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18 quotes by 17 authors

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… — Joshua Slocum
People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to… — Alice Bailey
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations. — Roderick Murchison
I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in… — Samuel Johnson
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… — Orson Pratt
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… — Johannes V. Jensen
In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government… — Thomas Paine
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… — Hermann von Helmholtz
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his… — John Keats
I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. — Nelson Mandela
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are… — Bernard Berenson
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. — Laurence Sterne
One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that… — Mahatma Gandhi
In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that… — John Hanning Speke
I have never settled for the notion of being an ordinary person living an ordinary life. I have always believed in and seen something more… — Trinity Chasara

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