Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, "I've had enough of this. . Arnold Bennett
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The worst of it is that if you do end up giving in, you'll never be able to get back what you crammed into the furnace. You'll have to live with the regrets, and that's something that can eat your soul. The advisor of all our lives, William Blake, wrote these words about ambition in his poem “The Tyger”: "What innocent hand or eye / May dare to make a weapon of!"

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