The sense of duty pursues us ever. [ Joseph Cook ]

Genius points the way; talent pursues it. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Different minds
Incline to different objects; one pursues
The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild;
Another sighs for harmony and grace,
And gentlest beauty. [ Akenside ]

Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [ La Fontaine ]

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest. [ Goldsmith ]

Year chases year, decay pursues decay; still drops some joy from withering life away. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The upright must suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth of a man if hatred pursues him. [ Gottfried von Strassburg ]

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. [ Swift ]

We are finite beings: there can be no infinite happiness for us. The soul that dreams it and pursues it will embrace but a shadow. [ Balzac ]

One man pursues power in order to possess wealth, and another pursues wealth in order to possess power; which last is the safer way, and generally followed. [ South ]

Thinkers are as scarce as gold; but he whose thought embraces all his subject, who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. [ Lavater ]

He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants. [ Lavater ]

I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore. [ Melmoth ]