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• It is said to be a series of epigrams; but, if it be, it is what the author intended; his endeavour was at the production of striking distichs and pointed sentences; and his distichs have the weight of solid sentiment, and his points the sharpness of resistless truth His characters are often selected with discernment, and drawn with nicety; his illustrations are often happy, and his reflections often just. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• If we owe honour to that social endeavour which is stimulated and sustained by an enthusiastic confidence in speedy and full fruition, we surely owe it still more to those, who knowing how remote and precarious and long beyond their own days is the hour of fruit, yet need no other spur nor sustenance than bare hope, and in this strive and endeavour and still endeavour. —  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot
• If "others"--those tyrannical and absorbent "others"--had intricately bound up their notions of happiness with the prevention of any such endeavour, and if those notions were of the usual negative, home-comfort-and-affection order, narrowly personal, fruitful in nothing except a sort of sentimental egotism that spread over a whole family--what Hadria called an egotism ŕ douze_--how far ought these ideas to be respected, and at what cost Professor Fortescue was unqualified in his condemnation of the sentiment which erected sacrificial altars in the family circle. —  The Daughters of Danaus
• Every man should endeavour, as far as he can, to depend upon his own exertions; however, you have still some time to think about the matter, and you will, I hope, succeed in whatever profession you follow," remarked the stranger There was another inmate of the house who appeared to interest him even more than Edward. —  Ned Garth Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade
• In a husky voice she told the Archbishop that she would yield We will endeavour, then, to induce the advocate Herezuelo to yield also, lovely Leonor," said the Archbishop, taking her hand and pressing it to his lips Why, you told me that my husband had already yielded!" —  The Last Look A Tale of the Spanish Inquisition

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