... the aspiring immigrant ... is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take h...is family with him as he rises.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledg...e of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women generally should be taught that the rough life men must needs lead, in order to be healthy, useful and manly men, would prec...lude the possibility of a great degree of physical perfection, especially in color. It is not a bad reflection to know that in all probability the human animal has endowments enough without aspiring to be the beauty of all creation as well as the ruler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can b...e managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his sta...rry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good reason not to play footba...ll.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is alwa...ys aspiring and going beyond its strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the ...stage it is the first thing to aim at.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »