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On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
Big results require big ambitions.
Big results require big ambitions.
We grow small trying to be great.
We grow small trying to be great.
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.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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.
No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
