"I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities."

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Source : Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.13, University Press of Kentucky

Washington Allston

#Ambition Quotes #Shining Quotes #Ability Quotes

“Movies are too literal.”
“Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.”

Source : Livy (1949). “Livy”
“You cannot eat your cake and have it.”
“Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.”
“Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."”
“To remain standing one often has to fall.”
“There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.”

Source : "Peace!: By the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates : an Anthology, Page 31" by Marek Thee, Unesco Publishing, (p. 162), 1995.
“When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.”

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