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Trying

«I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.»
«I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.»
Author: Diane Glancy | About: Trying | Keywords: in the meantime, meantime
«I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.»
«People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not»
Author: Giacomo Leopardi | About: Failure, People, Trying | Keywords: ridiculous
«I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.»
«I try to be the same person I was yesterday.»
Author: Colin Powell | About: Past, Trying
«Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.»
«I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.»
«Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution»
«Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.»

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