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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it read more
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
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 slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get read more
A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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.
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make read more
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
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.
Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition never comes to an end.
