"Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of……" — Vita Sackville-West
"Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong."
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43 Quotes by Vita Sackville-West
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The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one…
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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look…
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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with…
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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a…
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn…
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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.…
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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and…
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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as…
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
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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.
— Marcus Aurelius
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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…
— Charles Babbage
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
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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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