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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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"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
"Great dreams do not come to pass greatly at a twinkle of an eye, but you may see them happening at a twinkle of an eye. The best dream which survive greatly in reality takes great roots first before it grows in reality to bear great fruits. Delay is not death! Carefully and patiently nurture your dreams and make them happen distinctively in reality."
"To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations."
"A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best."
"Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small."
"The sky's dangers offer the eagle more opportunities than the nest's comfort."
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"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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