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«Only after many trials for strength,Only when all stimulants fail,Does the aspiring soulBy its own sheer powerFind the divineBy resting upon itself.»
«A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
aspiring, Assemblies, collected, commons, constitutional, enterprise, Martial, nobility, preserving, stubborn, tenacious
«The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'»
«The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.»
Author: Thomas Wolfe
| Keywords:
aspiring, bohemian, bonds, bourgeoisie, classless, cut short, draw a line, draw the line, Drew, fat, feared, Forever Free, free spirit, greedy, in a way, in low spirits, in short, low spirits, plebeian, Short Cuts
«Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
aiming, aspiring, at the best, fallen angel, houses, rebel
«Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
aspiring, avoids, Buddhism, characteristics, cosmic, covers, dogmas, expected, Personal experience, theology, The Natural, The Spiritual, transcends, unity
«Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Being a Woman,
Football
| Keywords:
aspiring, special interest, special interests
«When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
aspiring, honorable, in a higher place, rank, rankest, second rank, The Second, The Third, third, to a higher place
«Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
aspiring, breasts, elements, Four elements, framed, regiment, regimented, warring
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