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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring read more
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Ambition has no rest!
Ambition has no rest!
He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested
business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have read more
He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested
business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have
undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
the second or even the third rank.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
the second or even the third rank.
[Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis,
tertiisque consistere.]
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
