AMBITION
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I commend you to the goddess of ambition. She teaches the great virtues of labor, aggression and perseverance.—JOHN PETER ALTGELD
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Ambition has no risk.—BULWER-LYTTON, Richelieu
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I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm.—ANDREW CARNEGIE, Empire of Business
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.—JOSEPH CONRAD, A Personal Record
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Low ambition and the thirst of praise.—COWPER, Table Talk
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I had the ambition, by which sin
The Angels fell;
I climbed and, step by step, O Lord,
Ascended into Hell.—WILLIAM H. DAVIES, Ambition
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But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.—DRYDEN, Absalom and Achitophel
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How many "coming men" has one known! Where on earth do they all go to?—PINERO, The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith
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The trap to the high-born is ambition.—Proverb
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He that hews above his height may have chips in his eyes.—Proverb
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Climb not too high lest the fall be the greater.—Proverb
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That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
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I charge thee, fling away ambition:
By that sin fell the angels.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
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From his ambitious finger.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
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'Tis a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face ;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
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I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
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