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“Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.”

Knows Love Soul Names Felt Wealth Ambition Highest Noble Enjoyed Faculty Sure Love

Book:Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges

Source: Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges

“In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs must have been founded on fixed reasons of interest and ambition. Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds, on which it is commonly founded; and, by an infallible connexion, which prevails among all kinds of liberty, this privilege can never be enjoyed, at least has never yet been enjoyed, but in a free government.”

Source: Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

“I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.”

Enjoy Love Is Behinds Ambition Musician Actresses Intense Enjoyed Get Better

Author:Lauryn Hill

“The universe for me was other planets and other star systems and other galaxies. I enjoyed tracking it, but it had no specific influence on my ambitions for that reason. It wasn't really far enough away from Earth to matter to me.”

Matter Reason Enough Earth Universe Stars Influence Planets Ambition Enjoyed Galaxy My Ambition Tracking

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.”

Wisdom Virtue Share Mankind Source Fame Ambition Aim Enjoyed Labour Employed

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.”

Inspirational Mean Passion Ambition Enjoyed My Passion Passion And Success Enthusiasm Passion

Author:Pierre Omidyar

“As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.”

Sports Ambition Athlete Enjoyed My Ambition Youngsters Sportsman

Author:Lynn Davies

“From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.”