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"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
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"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."

"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."

"You can touch the moon if you really want to do it."

"Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz."She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?""Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters."

"Professional success is only partial success."

"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."

"Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams."
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"A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season."


"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."


"I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?"


"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."


"After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve."


"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"
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