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«Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.»
«Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.»
«Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.»
Author: Ted Williams
(Baseball Player)
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Baseball
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considered, endeavor, performer, performers, three times
«A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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Mothers
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cling, cling to, clouds, counsels, desert, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, endeavor, fall into place, fall upon, heavy, Precepts, rejoice, Return to, sudden, The Clouds, thicken, Trials, truest
«Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Communication
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contradict, endeavor, old man
«A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.»
«Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
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Achievement
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achievement, circumstances, endeavor, persistent, reputed
«But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.»
«I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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aggregated, Corporations, corruption, endeavor, enthrone, enthroned, enthrones, era, eras, higher power, high hand, prejudices, prolong, prolongs, reign, reigning, republic, The Corporation, The Republic
«ACHIEVEMENT, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.»
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