"Ambition is a lust that is never quenched,……" — Thomas Otway
"Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment."
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Thomas Otway
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13 Quotes by Thomas Otway
Thomas Otway has 13 quotes on this site.
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Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.
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Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
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No praying, it spoils business.
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No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to…
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Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair…
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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
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Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.
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There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life…
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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
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If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
— Paul Auster
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
— Sai Baba
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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