Quote by Robert Browning
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. - Robert Browning

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. – Robert Browning

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It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. – Robert Browning

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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do. – Robert Browning

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There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by ones own industry, or by the stupidity of others. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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