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“The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.”

Two Passion Objects Ambition Possessed

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another.”

Ifs Men Mean Has Beens Desire Objects Source Authority Sufficient Abundance Injury Possessed Disputes

Book:The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica

Source: The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica

“What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.”

Giving Firsts Children Art Book Childhood Objects Red Gold Paint Peter Possessed Picture Books St Peter

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.”

Objects Preserves Possessed Remedy Multitudes Pursued

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.”

Objects Delight Lust Possessed Weary Satiety

Author:Robert Dodsley