'If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.'
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Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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1 Timothy 3:1:
Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task.
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THE SAYING is true and irrefutable: If any man [eagerly] seeks the office of bishop (superintendent, overseer), he desires an excellent task (work).
(AMP)
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated
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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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