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| Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment. |
| by Otway |
| The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. |
| by James Oppenheim |
| Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. |
| by Thomas Otway |
| Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray. |
| by Oliver Goldsmith |
| Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold! |
| by Julia Ripley Dorr |
| Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. |
| by Joseph Addison |
| Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest. |
| by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. |
| by Max Planck |
| Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. |
| by John Steinbeck |
| The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen. |
| by Colette |
| As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so Pain grows proud to see us knuckle under it. She will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against her. |
| by Michel De Montaigne |
| History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.... Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained. |
| by Charles Darwin |
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