Pursues Quotes

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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. — Henry Ward Beecher
Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States. — John Bolton
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in… — Carl von Clausewitz
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for… — Pope Gregory I
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on… — John Owen
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make… — Michel de Montaigne
A winner is someone who sets their goals, commits themselves to those goals and then pursues their goals with all the ability that is given… — Leeman Bennett
With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health,… — Thomas Jefferson
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of… — Anthony Storr
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. — Juvenal
The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure… — Maxim Gorky
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the… — Stefan Zweig
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to… — Robert South
He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go. — Benjamin Franklin
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a… — William Melmoth
Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent. — Paulo Coelho
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can… — Leonardo da Vinci
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist. — Elfriede Jelinek

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