with all one's might

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For him one must endure heat and cold, hunger and thirst, and strike hard blows with all one's might, and take heed that no evil song can be made on us after we are dead.

From The Book of Romance by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

If such a condition is consummately miserable, the moral is to shun vice, and strive after virtue with all one's might.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt

With her it was better to have striven with all one's might and encountered disaster than to have lived fallow, a life of the most perfect rectitude.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Cullum, Ridgwell

If the object be thrown on the floor with all one's might, the result will be the same; its elasticity will always cause it to spring back to its original form.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 by Various

He had a strong belief, which grew in intensity with age, that the only chance of realising one's true life was to do something that interested one with all one's might.

From Beside Still Waters by Benson, Arthur Christopher