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'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
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Robert Browning
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
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Robert Browning
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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Sir James M. Barrie
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Sir Walter Scott
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Edmund Burke
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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William Lilly
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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
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Susan Sontag
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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
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Thomas Otway
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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Charlie McCarthy
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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Sir John Denham
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Joseph Joubert
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Thomas Dunn English
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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
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Oscar Wilde
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Ambition never comes to an end.
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Yoshida Kenko
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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William Shakespeare
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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Lord Byron
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As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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William Shakespeare
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Big results require big ambitions.
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James Champy
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Kenny Rogers
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Italian Proverb
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Samuel Johnson
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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Lord Byron
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He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
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Lao-Tzu
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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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Horace
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Angus Grossart
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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
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Henry Miller
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If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
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Publilius Syrus
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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C. Archie Danielson
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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Seneca
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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Eric Hoffer
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Alexander Pope
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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Horace
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Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
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Horace Walpole
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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Oliver Goldsmith
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
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William Penn
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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William Shakespeare
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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Edgar Quinet
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We grow small trying to be great.
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Eli Stanley Jones
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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
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Robert Browning
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When ambition ends, happiness begins.
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Hungarian Proverb
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Kenneth Kaunda
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Where ambition ends happiness begins.
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