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1. He describes it as a frame of mind “in which nothing definite is thought, planned, striven for, desired, or expected, which aims in no particular direction and yet knows itself capable alike of the possible and the impossible, so unswerving is its power…” [183] The author quotes his teacher as saying, “The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede
2. Perhaps the archery master, in Zen in the Art of Archery, was referring to right action when he said that the archer practices his art in a state “in which nothing definite is thought, planned, striven for, desired or expected, which aims in no particular direction…” [272]
3. The right girl would want him for what he had striven towards rather than for any framed piece of paper, that award which said he was now a success
4. and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against the Lord
5. The neat groupings of one hundred, each with its own leader that Moshe had striven to produce on the first day of the march south, having slowly reformed into the looser arrangements of convenience, now showed almost no resemblance to its original form
6. Moshe’s charges slipped into the safety of the shadow of the hill that they had striven so mightily to reach as the patrol raced past where they had left the road, in obvious pursuit of the fleeing Caleb
7. The neat groupings of one hundred, each with its own leader that Moshe had striven to
8. Moshe's charges slipped into the safety of the shadow of the hill that they had striven so
9. Wherefore then my brethren let us struggle with all earnestness knowing that the contest is [in our case] close at hand and that many undertake long voyages to strive for a corruptible reward; yet all are not crowned but those only that have laboured hard and striven gloriously
10. There will not be a man or woman there who has not delighted in the Word of God, poured out his soul in prayer at the throne of grace, and striven to live a holy life
11. Accomplished sages have striven to explain the nature of the world by
12. be earnestly striven for; and when they send what they
13. � In that way, we surrender our freedom, a quality of life and living for which many have striven and fought for throughout human and personal history
14. Conversely, others greatly fear them and have long striven to prevent such enlightenment
15. ancient symbology and have long striven to grasp the meaning of this and
16. Modern Rome is grateful to the English and the Germans who have striven to prove that she is not the Babylon of the Apocalypse
17. The conditions of that glorious destiny we have striven, according to our ability, to set forth in the foregoing pages
18. He had striven all his life to do what he could for her, and he'd nothing to reproach himself with
19. As for my disposition, that is, perhaps, somewhat too hasty; but I have striven to repress it
20. He had striven to put a cheat upon himself by making the avowal of a guilty conscience, but had gained only one other sin, and a self-acknowledged shame, without the momentary relief of being self-deceived
21. “O Arthur,” cried she, “forgive me! In all things else, I have striven to be true! Truth was the one virtue which I might have held fast, and did hold fast, through all extremity; save when thy good,—thy life,—thy fame,—were put in question! Then I consented to a deception
22. Here he had studied and written; here, gone through fast and vigil, and come forth half alive; here, striven to pray; here, borne a hundred thousand agonies! There was the Bible, in its rich old Hebrew, with Moses and the Prophets speaking to him, and God's voice through all! There, on the table, with the inky pen beside it, was an unfinished sermon, with a sentence broken in the midst, where his thoughts had ceased to gush out upon the page, two days before
23. He was not the worthless, broken, forsaken man that the Bird had striven to make of him
24. upon me—she who had striven so to loosen it—and it haunted her night and day the thought that my soul might again be within his grip
25. All the courtesy, all the gentleness Ellen had striven to instill in
26. She had the mobile face frequent in those whose sight has decayed by stages, has been laboriously striven after, and reluctantly let go, rather than the stagnant mien apparent in persons long sightless or born blind
27. Bulstrode saw in it not only medical jealousy but a determination to thwart himself, prompted mainly by a hatred of that vital religion of which he had striven to be an effectual lay representative—a hatred which certainly found pretexts apart from religion such as were only too easy to find in the entanglements of human action
28. Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain
29. I remembered something the philosopher Spinoza once wrote: “I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them
30. Hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them capable of receiving it
31. And just at this time he obtained the tranquillity and ease of mind he had formerly striven in vain to reach
32. Alexander I- the pacifier of Europe, the man who from his early years had striven only for his people’s welfare, the originator of the liberal innovations in his fatherland- now that he seemed to possess the utmost power and therefore to have the possibility of bringing about the welfare of his peoples- at the time when Napoleon in exile was drawing up childish and mendacious plans of how he would have made mankind happy had he retained power- Alexander I, having fulfilled his mission and feeling the hand of God upon him, suddenly recognizes the insignificance of that supposed power, turns away from it, and gives it into the hands of contemptible men whom he despises, saying only:
33. Since the beginning of her film career, Marilyn had striven to win the approval and respect of those in her profession
34. I assure you that in all my life I never saw a more fearful expression of face and figure! He was evidently quite forgetful of the care with which he had striven till then to hide his feelings from us, and his endeavours to appear cheerful—though, of course, no one was deceived
35. Haven't I striven, striven with all my strength, to find something to give meaning to my life? Haven't I struggled to love him, to love my son when I could not love my husband? But the time came when I knew that I couldn't cheat myself any longer, that I was alive, that I was not to blame, that God has made me so that I must love and live
36. Mankind as a whole has always striven to organize a universal state
37. “The medical experts have striven to convince us that the prisoner is out of his mind and, in fact, a maniac
38. They even increased the prosaicness of that to which before they had striven to give such a fantastic colour
39. As you know, I have striven hard to open English eyes to the emptiness of Shakespeare's philosophy, to the superficiality and second-handedness of his morality, to his weakness and incoherence as a thinker, to his snobbery, his vulgar prejudices, his ignorance, his disqualifications of all sorts for the philosophic eminence claimed for him
40. Alexander I—the pacifier of Europe, the man who from his early years had striven only for his people’s welfare, the originator of the liberal innovations in his fatherland—now that he seemed to possess the utmost power and therefore to have the possibility of bringing about the welfare of his peoples—at the time when Napoleon in exile was drawing up childish and mendacious plans of how he would have made mankind happy had he retained power—Alexander I, having fulfilled his mission and feeling the hand of God upon him, suddenly recognizes the insignificance of that supposed power, turns away from it, and gives it into the hands of contemptible men whom he despises, saying only:
41. Everyone who gains a position of power he has striven for, every general, every minister, every millionaire, every petty official who has gained the place he has coveted for ten years, every rich peasant who has laid by some hundred rubles, passes through this unconscious process of softening
