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“For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.”

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Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we are playing with baubles, with our Legislative Councils, our Simultaneous Examinations, our ingenious schemes for separating the judicial from the executive functions, - while we, I say, are finessing about trifles, the waters of the great deep are being stirred and that surging chaos of the primitive man over which our civilised societies are superimposed on a thin crust of convention, is being strangely and ominously agitated.”

“It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.”

Thinking Book Ends Interest Heard Advice Information Pure Ambition Graves Reverence Flattery Maxims Artifice Counsellors

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.”

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Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think

“Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.”

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Author:William Davenant

“There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.”

Men Two Earth Form Desire Special He Man Ambition Connections Complaining Graves Contentment Discontent Restlessness Meek Meekness

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

“Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?”

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Author:Joe Hill

“This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.”

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Book:Further fables for our time

Source: Further fables for our time