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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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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. – Robert Browning

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We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd. – Anon.

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambitions hands. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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