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Ambition

«Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.»
Author: Charlie McCarthy | About: Ambition | Keywords: lazy
«Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.»
Author: Sallust | About: Ambition | Keywords: Blood and, forgets, obligations
«Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.»
Author: Thomas Otway (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | About: Ambition | Keywords: enjoyment, inflame, inflamed, inflames, lust, madder, quenched
«Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | About: Ambition | Keywords: fading, transient
«Ambition aspires to descend»
Author: Pierre Corneille (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Ambition | Keywords: aspires, descend
«Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.»
Author: Robert Southey (Poet, Writer) | About: Ambition | Keywords: idol, sublimely
«Ambition and fleas both jump high»
Author: German Proverb | About: Ambition | Keywords: fleas
«All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind»
Author: Joseph Conrad | About: Ambition | Keywords: ambitions, miseries
«Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.»
Author: Lao Tzu (Philosopher) | About: Ambition | Keywords: fingers, heavens, heel, nailed, stretch
«Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity»
Author: Martin Luther (Priest, Scholar) | About: Ambition | Keywords: brethren, captivity, pope, simony, the pope
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