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Ambition

What is ambition? ‘Tis a gloriou…

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What is ambition? ‘Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven. Willis

Suffer

What is deservedly suffered must…

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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. Ovid

Fame

What is fame? The advantage of …

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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Stanislaus, Leszczynski

Pride

What is pride? A whizzing rocke…

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What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star. Wordsworth, William

Friendship

What is thine is mine, and all m…

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. Cicero

Thoughts

What is thought? It is not Matt…

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What is thought? It is not Matter, nor Spirit. It is not a Thing; but a Power and Force. I make upon a paper certain conventional marks, that represent that Thought. There is no Power or Virtue in the marks I write, but only in the Thought which they tell to others. I die, but […]

Spirituality

What lies behind us and what lie…

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Destiny

What lies behind us and what lie…

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Liberty

What light is to the eyes – what…

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What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. Ingersoll, Robert G.

Wealth

What makes all doctrines plain a…

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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. Johnson, Samuel

Marriage

What makes men indifferent to th…

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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please. Ovid

Laughter

What monstrous absurdities and p…

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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! Repplier, Agnes

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