Ambition Quote by Martin Farquhar Tupper

“The father dead has euchered the son out of his patrimony. For it is the death of the father to which the son is…

— Cormac McCarthy

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

— Richard Steele

“Now the son whose father's existance in this world is historical and speculative even before the son has entered it in a bad way.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“This son of his old age was yet more dear— Less from instinctive tenderness, the same Fond spirit that blindly works in the blood…

— William Wordsworth

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the…

— Confucius

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

— Saint Patrick

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams Of better days that are yet to be, After glittering goal, that distant gleams, Running and racing…

— Friedrich Schiller

“Man … has the wish not to die. This wish is originally identical with the instinct of self-preservation. … Subsequently, … this primary negative…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of…

— Anonymous

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son…

— Guru Nanak