“ Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its "great intellects.". ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.". ”
- Richard Pryor- Copy
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“ There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. ”
- Josiah Gilbert Holland- Copy
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“ At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
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“ He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
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“ O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! - King Henry V. Prologue. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold. ”
- Louis Francois Boufflers- Copy
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“ Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ”
- Thomas Robert Malthus- Copy
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“ Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. ”
- Thomas Babington Macaulay- Copy
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“ Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day — some sweet day. ”
- Lewis J. Bates- Copy
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“ If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar. ”
- John Henry Cardinal Newman- Copy
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“ Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do the best to climb, and get to him. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ Right now we are in the escalation mode, and right now our budgets are absorbing that. We're still moving forward. ”
- John DePasquale- Copy
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“ One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him. ”
- Karl A. Menninger- Copy
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“ The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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“ How can a guy climb trees, say Me, Tarzan, you, Jane, and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe. ”
- Johnny Weissmuller- Copy
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