"The years I have squandered in puerile excitement,……" — Theophile Gautier

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• We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our… — Teresa of Avila
• We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we… — John Stuart Mill
• I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with… — Unknown Author
• I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that… — Thomas Jefferson
• By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever,… — Anthony Collins
• Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared… — Mary Everest Boole
• Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into… — Elbert Hubbard
• This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to… — Henry David Thoreau
• An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of… — Jerry Thomas
• When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it… — Samuel Johnson

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