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Oliver Cromwell1599–1658

Oliver Cromwell on motivation and goals

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

Oliver Cromwell

Statement to Pomponne de Bellievre, as told to Cardinal de Retz in 1651; Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (1717), p.75; p.286

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