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  • The RAF expressed this brilliantly in its motto "Per ardua ad astra" ( "Through adversity to the stars") – but every pilot needs a navigator.

    Red pen blues 2010

  • Her ardua ad astra - her efforts got her a hatchback

    On foreign ludicity DC 2010

  • Per ardua ad astra. on March 7, 2008 at 4: 50 pm | Reply Anon

    Thin Blue Line « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Desde que nació este blog, me he dedicado a la tarea ardua de separar la maleza del trigo.

    veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008

  • Sadie Westmonster is of the per ardua astra work ethic and has roared into the Flying Lion homework set by Professor Watson, who never asks a question when he doesn't know the answer.

    Cam-Croft: Unpermissable Air Con and Carbon Coughing 2007

  • Sadie Westmonster is of the per ardua astra work ethic and has roared into the Flying Lion homework set by Professor Watson, who never asks a question when he doesn't know the answer.

    Archive 2007-10-28 2007

  • With eyes fixed on the noble goal to which “per aspera et ardua” they tend, they may, now and then, be stirred to momentary wrath by the unnecessary obstacles with which the ignorant, or the malicious, encumber, if they cannot bar, the difficult path; but why should their souls be deeply vexed?

    Essays 2007

  • I shall lead thee per ardua montium, et lubrica valllum, et roscida cespitum, et [147] glebosa camporum, through variety of objects, that which thou shalt like and surely dislike.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I.ii. regibus hic mos est: ubi equos mercantur, opertos inspiciunt, ne, si facies, ut saepe, decora molli fulta pede est, emptorem inducat hiantem, quod pulchrae clunes, breve quod caput, ardua cervix. and see Virg.

    On Horsemanship 2007

  • Terra Marique per pericula per ardua amicae comiti

    Vailima Letters 2005

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