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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great…
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as…
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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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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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us…
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Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not…
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Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of…
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Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.
— Sam Tanenhaus
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The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
— Erwin McManus
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all…
— Jean Racine
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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us
— Robert Burton
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Person doesn't betrays another person, its the expectation that betrays us which we keep from others.
— Sushan Sharma
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