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ambition errors suffering
Charles Caleb Colton The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.
ambition perception prudent
Alan Hansen It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
ambition want plus
Aiden Wilson Tozer We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.
ambition goal quality
Chogyam Trungpa There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.
ambition successful men
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man
ambition order desire
Edward Gibbon The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity.
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Edward Gibbon The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness.
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David Hume Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
power overcoming cowardice
Charles Caleb Colton That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
power two age
Charles Caleb Colton There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
powerful forgiving easy
Charles Caleb Colton It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
powerful heaven goddess
Charles Caleb Colton We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
powerful heart vanity
Charles Caleb Colton Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
powerful lying believe
Charles Stanley One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.
powerful evil spirit
Charles Spurgeon We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.
powerful church christ
Charles Spurgeon In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
powerful power negative
Alan Watts But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
may oppression begets
Charles Dickens Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
may invention condensation
Charles Caleb Colton Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
may maintaining conquer
Charles Caleb Colton Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
may modern poet
Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
may finals tomorrow
Charles Spurgeon To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.
may certain made
Charles Spurgeon We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
may forget ifs
Alan Watts If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
may conversation used
Alan Moore While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.
may mood used
Alan Bennett It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.