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Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition never comes to an end.
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you read more
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down.
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down.
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 strike the stars with by sublime head.
[Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
I strike the stars with by sublime head.
[Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms,
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms,
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,
Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
