Endeavouring Quotes
12 quotes by 10 authors
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The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts, to…
— Robert Hooke
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All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
— William Bligh
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I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour.…
— Hannibal
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Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
— Samuel Johnson
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As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution,…
— Thomas Edward Brown
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Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong…
— Samuel Johnson
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Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known,…
— Archibald Garrod
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May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am…
— Jane Austen
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There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the first…
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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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…
— John Stuart Mill
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We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous and accessible to…
— Sigmund Freud
Who Wrote These Endeavouring Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 12 Endeavouring Quotes as follows: