Oscar Wilde Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Progress Quotes

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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She lives the poetry she cannot write.

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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Any place you love is the world to you.

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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