Granville Sharp quotes
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“Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear.”
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“When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office, dignity, affinity, or connexion, and attributes, properties, or qualities, good or ill], if the article [ho], or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle: i.e. it denotes a farther description of the first-named person...”
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“A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.”
-- Granville SharpSource : Granville Sharp (2014). “A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery”, p.79, Cambridge University Press
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“Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.”
Source : Abbie Hoffman (1968). “Revolution for the hell of it”
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“To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.”
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“Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.”
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“Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.”
Source : Barbara Fredrickson (2010). “Positivity”, p.158, Oneworld Publications
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“Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.”
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“All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them”
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Source : EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.300
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