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"Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need."
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"Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne."
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"If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen."
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"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."
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"If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own."
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"I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention."
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"Ambition is greed without makeup."
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"Don't just raise the bar. Raise the roof."
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"The world was in the hands of those who had courage to dream and to realize their dreams."
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"...I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- because he is not very intelligent. He can see only one desire at a time. I said he tested his dreams; he will murder every dream with the implacable arrows of his will. This boy will win to every goal of his aiming; for he can realize no thought, no reason, but his own. And I am sorry for his coming greatness..."
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"It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement."
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"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee."
Language
"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."
Virtue
"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."
Fortune
"'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end."
Music
"Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised."
Success
"Fortune, that favors fools."
Fortune
"Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco."
Health
"If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick."
Thought
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."
Friendship
"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom."
Art
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