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    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.

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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

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On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

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No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

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But what will not ambition and revenge
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But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to? who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last
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I see, but cannot reach, the height
That lies forever in the light.

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That lies forever in the light.

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