Word: strive
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...found in the contempt which so many feel for the simple exercise of the retentive faculty, in comparison with the higher training to be got from the mental gymnastics of philosophy. While men are not apt to depreciate the value of their own possessions, so also they do not strive to gain that which they hold in little estimation. The old belief that a good memory was incompatible with a sound judgment has long since been exploded as contrary, not only to common sense, but to a large number of actual examples. The depreciation of memory is, then, largely...
...Strive to be women...
...strive with honest purpose...
...much ground as possible, and an evening walk is the cause of pangs of conscience. A feeling seems continually to possess them, that they must do something, lest some opportunity should pass unheeded. Unsatisfied while a moment is left unoccupied by study, they too often lose the good they strive...
...Might strive to keep it to itself...