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Letter "A" » Ambition
"Ambition has no rest!"
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
About: Ambition
"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.]"
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Ambition
"On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!"
Author: Eliza Cook
About: Ambition
"By low ambition and the thirst of praise."
Author: William Cowper
About: Ambition
"On the summit see,
The seals of office glitter in his eyes;
He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,
Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,
And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,
And wins them, but to lose them in his turn."
Author: William Cowper
About: Ambition
"The great refusal.
[It., Il gran rifiuto.]"
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
About: Ambition
"But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land."
Author: John Dryden
About: Ambition
"Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down."
Author: John Dryden
About: Ambition
"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all."
Author: Elizabeth I
About: Ambition
"They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem
Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem."
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
About: Ambition
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