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Otway:Ambition is a lust that's never quenched,


Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment.
by Otway


James Oppenheim:The foolish man seeks happiness


The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
by James Oppenheim


Thomas Otway:Ambition is a lust that is never


Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
by Thomas Otway


Oliver Goldsmith:Hope, like the gleaming taper's


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


Julia Ripley Dorr:Who soweth good seed shall


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


Joseph Addison:Courage that grows from


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


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:Ah, how skillful


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


Max Planck:A new scientific truth does not


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


John Steinbeck:Man, unlike any other thing


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


Colette:The writer who loses his self-doubt, who


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


Michel De Montaigne:As an enemy is made more


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


Charles Darwin:History shows that the human


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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