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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything – and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ”productive” man a yet higher species.
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The glorious frailty of the noble mind.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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The great refusal. It., Il gran rifiuto.
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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
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The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life be done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
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The modesty of certain ambitious persons consists in becoming great without making too much noise; it may be said that they advance in the world on tiptoe.
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The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious. If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hat Caesar answered it.
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The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
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The only way to predict your future is to invent it.
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The passion of ambition is the same in a courtier, a soldier, or an ecclesiastic; but, from their different educations and habits, they will take very different methods to gratify it.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
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The path of glory leads but to the grave.
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
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The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day’s task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.
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The ripest peach is the highest on the tree.
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The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, ‘mid snow and ice A banner with the strange device, Excelsior!
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