"Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up."

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Source : Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.48

Samuel Daniel

#Success Quotes #Mean Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.”
“All my hurts my garden spade can heal.”
“We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.”
“I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.”
“Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.”

Source : Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.135, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.”
“Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.”
“Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.”

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