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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise.
By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise.
By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?
Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it read more
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to read more
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life be read more
The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life be done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes,
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn
Ambition has no rest!
Ambition has no rest!
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
