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“Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?”

Thinking Doe Enough Might Choices Ambition Labor Harder Good Enough Grain Harvest Sage

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.”

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”

Ends Home Desire Results Ambition Labor Ultimate Enterprise Prompts Prosecution Home Sweet Home Sweet Home Happy Home

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”

Grows Effort Attention Ambition Garden Labor Plant Intention Patient Thrive Gardening Good Intentions Gardening And God Inspirational Gardening Planting A Garden Plants Growing

Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

“A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.”

Men Success Work Fool Ambition Labor Stress Regard Constant Rewards Obituary

Book:The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

“They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.”

Men Stills Business Dog Anxiety Ambition Bird Labor Chains Wheels Climbs Ambitious Cages My Ambition Squirrels Incessant Great Ambition Ambitious Man

Author:Robert Burton

“The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.”

Firsts Art Lovers Ambition Labor Criticism Communicate Superiors One Time Sensibility Eloquence Rapture

Book:Life and Writings

Source: Life and Writings