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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition
Sir John Denham

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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Books - Reading
Sir John Denham

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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
Translation
Sir John Denham

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
Knowledge
Sir John Denham

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We are never like angels till our passion dies.
Angels
Sir John Denham

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Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
Youth
Sir John Denham

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun