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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to? who aspires must down as low
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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
To basest things.
No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
