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Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel,
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will.

Edmund Spenser

Yield, Brave, Care

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The love of fame usually spurs on the mind.
[Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

Ovid

Mind, Fame

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Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation.

Emma Goldman

Struggle, Suffering, Vision

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent.

Francis Quarles

Fear, Evil, Giving

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That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.

Joseph Hall

Horse, Fall, Oxen

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The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

Mark Twain

Men, Emergencies, Approval

Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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Actions speak louder than words, but words spur actions.

Janet Todd

Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Action, Speak

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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

Patricia Hill Collins

Hero, Mean, Numbers

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Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

Terry Eagleton

Tasks, Socialism, Rational

"Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine.

Thierry Henry

Team, Europe, Machines

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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Joseph Joubert

Morality, Curb, Knows

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By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

Nancy Pelosi

Country, College, Class

"Pelosi: Higher Education Bill is Bipartisan Investment in College Affordability and in America's Middle Class". Press release, July 31, 2008.

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Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

Wendell Phillips

Sex, Real, School

Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.244

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Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fate, Treasure, Leisure

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.57

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When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Horace Mann

Education, School, Emulation

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perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Hortense Calisher

Prayer, Meditation, Answered Prayers

Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

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Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.

Wanda Landowska

Music, Law, Games

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Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.

William Shakespeare

Horse, Fall, Simple

William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Julius Caesar! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.173, BookCaps Study Guides

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Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.

Neal A. Maxwell

Meaningful, Book, People

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Of the Black Prince [his son] at Crécy, 1345: Let the boy win his spurs. [Old English] Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I woll this iourney be his, and the honoure therof.

Edward III of England

Son, Winning, Boys

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

D. H. Lawrence

Life, Hurt, Ocean

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Country, Adversity, Home

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The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

Elizabeth Aston

Lying, Details, Fiction

Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

Emile Souvestre

Spring, Selfishness, Action

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To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

Charles Horton Cooley

Ambition, Sea, Suggestions

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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