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"There is nothing wrong with wanting more. There is no reason why you should n't get everything you want from life."

"In order to have success, you have to concentrate on your goals."

"It is never late, pursuit your ambitions."

"The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have."

"Life is full of limitless opportunities. You ought to seek them."

"An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master."

"The shrewd hunt foxes, the strong hunt lions, but the mighty hunt elephants."

"It is the possibility of the dream, which quickens my spirit to take action."
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"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

"There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals."

"There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is."

"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"

"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

"Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By the green land; by the bright hearthstone! this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no; stay on board, on board!- lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick. That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see in that eye!"

"In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot."
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