Ascent Quote by John Milton

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had…

— Charles Dickens

“What greater stimulus to ambition than the promise that the goals of which we dream, the nobility of spirit to which we aspire, the…

— Fiona Maazel

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“In dignity and harmony, in rich beauty rose their voices now employed in noble purpose. Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is…

— Richard Llewellyn

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Were our pupil's disposition so bizarre that he would rather hear a tall story than the account of a great voyage or a wise…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed…

— Virginia Woolf

“No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of…

— Samuel Johnson

And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“For such a career I lacked both endurance and inclination: the stress of ambition left me cold, while the Muse, the creative spirit, was…

— Ovid

“Lark’s Song That child who from Diana’s thought is born A huntress swift, who doth the world adorn With strength and passion worthy of…

— D. Alexander Neill

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others,…

— Diogenes