"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to……" — Wilfred Owen
"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
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56 Quotes by Wilfred Owen
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The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than…
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
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The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my…
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No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
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Was it for this the clay grew tall?
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And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is…
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If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable
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The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the…
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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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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…
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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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