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“Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties — French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time”. –Frederick Rolfe

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain”. –Karl Barth

“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well”. –William Shakespeare

“No matter how I struggle and strive, I’ll never get out of this world alive”. –Hank Williams

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong; because someday in your life you will have been all of these”. –George Washington Carver