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"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
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"Don't waste your life on small dreams. Give yourself permission to dream big."
"We all do have a vision in life and we all wish to achieve something in life. We all ought to note that vision is there for everyone but, achievement is there for someone!"
"Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom."
"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."
"There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams."
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
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"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."
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